Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

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It's better to have been born than never to-- even though that's followed by death-- than never to have been born at all.

出生还是好于永远不-,就算生后即是死-,还是好于永远都不出生。

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Does the fact that death follows life-- does that produce any interaction effects between the two, which need to be added into our formula-- ? added into the mix as well?

那生后即是死这个事实-,有没有在这两者间产生任何相互影响，也需要被增加到我们的公式中来-,要增加到混合中来？

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That's the human condition--life followed by death.

那就是人类的处境，生后即是死。

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Given that we're going to die, this fact seeps back in and poisons the nature of life or perhaps poisons the nature of the whole, life followed by death, so that on balance the whole thing's negative.

已知我们会死，这个事实渗透到并使毒害生命的本质,或者也许毒害所有事的本质，生后即是死，所以总的来说，所有的事都是消极的。

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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