But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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What all this suggests, then, and this is a point that I really made before, is that the best understanding of the deprivation account doesn't say that what's bad is the mere fact that we're going to die.

这说明，也是我之前强调过的一点，就是对“剥夺解释“的最好的理解,不是说人终将一死的事实,是一件坏事。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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