And one thing that seems intrinsically bad, one thing that seems to reduce the value of a life, is pain.

有一样东西看似本身就是坏的，它似乎在减少生命的价值，是痛苦。

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Because when we see that something is just necessary, we-- it reduces the sting of it.

因为当我们认识到有些事是必然的-,它便感少了我们对它的痛苦。

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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