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My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

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

我的工作基于这样一个假设:从长远来看，我们道德思维的清晰和一致性可能会让我们对道德问题持有更好的观点。

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In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

在很多国家领导人都在做同样的事情，为国家利益着想的情况下，在全球变暖这样的问题上，你很可能得不到解决方案，所以我认为你必须在这些问题上有某种道德上的特朗普。

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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。

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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

虽然有时我渴望一种安全感和一致性，但我确实喜欢被人打垮的感觉。我真的不知道下周会发生什么，更不用说今年了。

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Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

理智和清晰对我来说更重要，我愿意为此放弃很多闪光的东西。我愿意有更多无聊的朋友，他们都很理智。

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

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 only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

唯一能改变主意的人是那些有主意的人。

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Clarity affords focus.

提供清晰的焦点。

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