Maybe you'll now believe Hobbes if you don't believe me. So the state of nature, it's a state of insecurity, it's a state of conflict.

如果你不相信我的话，你也不一定相信霍布斯,所以自然状态,是一种不安全的状态，是一种矛盾的状态。

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Now, after all, even if you believe that, well, your soul will go to heaven so you won't cease to exist as a person, you might still believe that your body will die.

说到底，即便你相信，自己的灵魂会上天堂,所以作为个人不会死亡，你还是会相信自己的身体是会消亡。

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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