I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

我希望我们能更明确地思考这个问题,而不是把我们的直觉当作道德的既定标准,而是对它进行反思,对道德问题这一事实持更开放的态度,思考我们应该怎么做。

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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

为了改变皮肤,进化成新的周期,我觉得一个人必须学会放弃。如果一个对象在内部发生了变化,就不应该继续使用相同的对象。它们反映了一个人昨天的思想和心理。我扔掉那些没有活力、没有生命的东西。

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

所有的思想都必须直接或间接地通过某些特性,最终与直观联系起来,因此与我们联系起来,与感性联系起来,因为没有别的方法可以把一个对象给予我们。

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

佩洛西一开始就说,这将是历史上最开放、最诚实、最讲道德的国会。我们看到的是她每天都在违背诺言。

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

我认为我们是非常复杂的,我们有能力做各种各样的事情,而电影并没有反映这一点。

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

幽默是当你应该拥有时,却没有得到,却嘲笑它。

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...

你应该走哪条路取决于你想去哪里。

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

我们的第一直觉是真实的。