What we did was a moral necessity.

我们做了在道义上非做不可的事。

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"We feel that there is a certain moral necessity to make known the terrible facts," a missionary, Miner Searle Bates, wrote.

“我们觉得应该让人们知道这个悲惨的事实，这绝对是道义上的需要”一位委员会的成员Miner Searle Bates这样写道。

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If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上，或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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Secretary Rumsfeld has indicated that the President perceives this as a "moral" obligation, as well as a strategic necessity.

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Such calculations are far from sinister, but are an absolute necessity of continued existence and, as such, perfectly moral.

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By necessity, much of the dash of the original has been slowed, and the moral shape that Tolkien devised whereby the dwarves, for all their courage, are corrupted by their quest has yet to emerge.

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