While other species," he notes, "may have voice, may have sounds and be able to distinguish pleasure and pain, Logos speech"--logos is his word for it.
他注明,“虽然其它动物也许能发声,也许有音调能区分出愉悦与痛苦,“辩论能力“或他所用的词汇。
So if you add up, if you try to calculate the balance of happiness and suffering, you might have a case for saying what they did was the right thing.
合计来看的话,计算一下,幸福与痛苦之差,你也许会认为,他们的所作所为是正确的选择。
Well, if that's right, and if we then realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that I'm going to die, then perhaps some of the sting, some of the bite, is eliminated.
如果那是对的话,如果我们意识到,我们无法改变我们会死去的事实,那么也许有些刺痛,有些痛苦便消除了。
We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.
然后我们要区分各种情况,尝试描述某个特定的例子,也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。
you may remember the story from Derek Parfit about having the painful operation.
你们也许记得Derek,Parfit的故事,是关于痛苦的手术的。
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