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You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions.

  • -- Christopher Bigsby 比格斯比

你知道人们常说:如果上帝是一个自由主义者，我们就不会有十诫。我们应该有十个建议。

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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点，而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点，而是试探性地持有这些观点，并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

我们看到像互惠这样的东西，这是我们道德观的核心。但如果你谈论的是一套关于我们应该做什么的规则，那么，是的，它是一种人类产品。

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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

科学进步使道德进步成为必然;因为如果人的力量增强了，阻止他滥用力量的制约就必须加强。

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Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

自由主义者是公民自由的坚定捍卫者——前提是我们只谈论罪犯。

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