At the same time, it's interesting that Deuteronomy seems to be aware of some of the dangers in this idea, the danger of a superiority complex, a moral danger involved in the notion of election.

同时，很有趣的是,《申命记》似乎意识到了这个观点的危险之处，优越性的危险，在“选择“这一概念中的道德危机。

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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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