“我不觉得我们有什么理由对政客们有更高的期望，认为他们不会与别的人群一样经受人类共有的心理上的困境，”阿珀斯托利迪斯教授说，“人经常做自我毁灭的事，做不理性的事。”

“I don’t see why we would expect politics to be more free of the psychological contradictions of other humans beings, ” said Mr. Apostolidis. “People do self-destructive things that are not rational.”

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30年以前，不少哲学家、心理学家和精神病学家还认为，婴儿和幼年儿童没有理性思考能力，他们以自我为中心，也不可能产生道德判断。

Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral.

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编者按：约阿希姆·克鲁格是布朗大学的心理学教授，他研究自我认知和社会知觉。他是《理性和社会责任》的编辑。

Editor's note: Joachim I. Krueger is professor of psychology at Brown University who studies self-perception and social perception. He is the editor of Rationality and social Responsibility.

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