And one possible response, the last one we'll look at, is, what you should, at least sometimes, s kill yourself.
一个可能的回应是,就是我们将讨论的最后一个话题,你应该做的,至少是有时应该做的,是自杀。
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。
Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.
还有件很奇怪的事儿,我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了,大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后,第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。
Basically, you're introducing this gene into cells that when you give the right inactive drug that will cause the cell to make chemicals that kill it.
概括来说,当你把这个自杀基因导入,含有特定未激活药物的细胞时,二者作用就使细胞生成了,可以杀死自己的化合物
The organism is not suicidal.
有机体不是天生就要自杀的。
The lists of reasons to kill himself were "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "a sea of troubles," and "the heartache in the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."
一张是要自杀的原因,“命运的种种捉弄和折磨”,“无穷尽的烦恼“,”血肉之躯必定要承受无数的,锥心之痛“
Nine-eleven on the United States on September 11 2001] for example a moral law that refused to allow the statesmen to protect the community in times of crisis would not be a principle of natural right it would be a suicide note.
举,911,为例,一部道德法],拒绝允许政治家,在有危机时适切地保护其社群,那就不是自然权利的原则,而是部自杀式的批注。
And so we'll end the semester by thinking about questions along the lines of the rationality and morality of suicide.
我们将通过思考,自杀的合理性和道德性,结束这个学期。
Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.
许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西,自杀是毫无意义的。
And the last question we'll turn to is, could it ever make sense to kill ourselves?
而最后一个问题就似乎,自杀是有意义的吗?
When, if ever, is suicide an appropriate, ? rational or moral response to one's situation?
什么时候,如果有的话,自杀是合适的,合理的或道德的回应呢?
You can see that it would be problem here if the gene that you were trying to give to the cancer cells also went to normal cells-- that would be a problem.
这确实是个问题,如果我们想导入癌细胞的自杀基因,也能进入正常细胞,那问题就大了
We're coming on toward the end of the semester, and the last topic we'll be talking about is indeed the topic of suicide.
我们就要到学期末了,我们最后一个要讨论的话题,正是自杀话题。
If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.
如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话,自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。
So suicide is both immoral on the one hand and never makes sense.
自杀是不道德且不被人理解的。
Suicide, under certain circumstances, might be rationally and morally justified.
自杀有时候,也有可能是合乎常理的。
You could have,for example,some sort of suicide pact.
你可以有共同自杀的行为。
He only had one argument not to kill himself: "To sleep, perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil might give us pause."
他只有一个不自杀的理由:,“入睡,偶尔作梦,因为在沉睡中,什么梦都会出现,我们可以从中暂时摆脱尘世的烦恼”
It doesn't mean of course that suicide isn't ever an appropriate response.
当然不是说,自杀从来不是一种合适的回应。
But it's a tempting philosophical thought to say, "Once I've shown it's better never to have been born, " it follows that suicide is the appropriate response."
但这是一个引诱人的哲学想法,“一旦我明白了最好还是不要出生,就会出自杀是合适行动的结论“
We'll be reading his essay on suicide.Hume died,had an illness.
读到他关于自杀的论文,Hume死于疾病。
And from the fact, even if we were to agree with it, that it would've been better if we hadn't been born-- instead of feeling sorry for unborn Larry, Larry perhaps we should envy unborn Larry; that's what the pessimists say-- even if that were true, it wouldn't follow that suicide was an appropriate response.
从这个事实讲,即使我们同意,我们没有出生更好-,与其为没出生的Larry感到遗憾,也许我们应该嫉妒未出生的;,这正是悲观主义者的观点-,即使这是对的,也得不出自杀是适合的回应的结论。
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