Is it government's responsibility to correct this or do people just need to buck up and change their lives in a way that turns these numbers around?

纠正这些行为是政府的责任,还是只需人们行动起来,改变自己的生活方式,来挽回这些数字代表的趋势

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which is something that the state, the government apparatus should not be a part of.

那是任何州以及政府的有关机构都不能纵容的一种行为。

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Locke believes in certain fundamental rights constrain what government can do, and he believes that those rights are natural rights, not rights that flow from law or from government.

洛克认为有些基本权利能限制政府的行为，并认为这些权利都是自然权利，不是由法律或政府赋予的。

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Buthere is the conventional aspect of property, it's a further question what counts as property, how it's defined and what counts as taking property, and that's up to the government.

但财产还有约定俗成的一面，就引出了更进一步的问题,什么才算财产，财产如何定义,且何种行为才算掠夺财产，这是由政府决定的。

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If the right to private property is natural, not conventional, if it's something that we acquire even before we agree to government, How does that right constrain what a legitimate government can do?

如果私有财产是与生俱来的，而非约定俗成，如果这是在我们同意组建政府前就拥有的，这个权利又如何能限制合法政府的行为呢？

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