Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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