I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

  • -- Gary Becker 贝克尔

我不赞同罪犯的动机与其他人截然不同的假设。

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

我对身体的研究越多,把我的假设保持在暂时的保留状态,我就越欣赏和同情某种特定的疾病。身体不再是一个病态或非理性的恶魔,而是一个具有内在逻辑和智慧的过程。

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

几个世纪以来,死刑常常伴随着野蛮的改良,一直试图遏制犯罪;然而,犯罪依然存在。为什么?因为人的本能在交战,并不像法律所宣称的那样,是处于平衡状态的恒常力量。

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

我认为我在那本书中的主要批评是针对一个普遍的假设,即适应性是种群和物种的特征,而不仅仅是种群和物种中的个体。

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

罪犯通常利用弱点。他们能闻到。