引领我们从孩童到幼年到毕业再到工作的社会信念已像潮汐下的沙堡悄然碎裂。

The social constructs that push us from baby to student to graduate to career are disintegrated like sandcastles on a beach by the tide.

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这些信念在某些社会群体中仍很盛行。

Those beliefs still prevail among certain social groups.

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如果他们放弃了自己的信念，他们就有可能失去社会联系。

If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties.

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They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

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Consider the following: every society which we know operates within the medium of belief or faith of some kind.

考虑下例所提：每一个社会,已知的社会，运作的媒介,多少都含有一些信念或信仰。

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