They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

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Consider the following: every society which we know operates within the medium of belief or faith of some kind.

考虑下例所提：每一个社会,已知的社会，运作的媒介,多少都含有一些信念或信仰。

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