If I want to persuade you that I love you, would never leave you, you can trust me with everything, it may be a superb tactic for me to believe it.

如果我想让你相信我爱你，永远都不离开你，你什么都可以信任我，或许最好的策略便是我自己对此深信不疑。

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How can individuals who are biologically autonomous, who judge and see matters very differently from one another, who can never be sure whether they trust one another, ? how can such individuals accept a common authority?

在生理上独立的个人，可以从不同角度,判断和看待事物的个人，永远不可能知道他们是否能互相信任的个人，这些个体如何才能接受一个相同的权力制约呢？

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