Aside from the answer given the other “biological” (I deem this as why evolution made it that way) is because it expresses sadness without any form of language. Like all of our muscles that allow us to make facial expressions tears help convey emtoions, which is incredibly useful for our species which has evolved with social ability in mind.
Tears provide a visible signal that you are in pain, that can be silent.
EG, you’re hunting a sabretooth tiger with your caveman buddies, and you hurt yourself. The other cavemen see your tears and know you’re hurt, you didn’t have to make a sound which could be heard by the sabretooth tiger.
The stuff that deals with pain don’t really distinguish between physical pain and emotional pain.
So that’s why your body goes through a bunch of physical responses to emotional pain when you are sad, including crying.
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