They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

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And the challenge for scheduling is to pick the things that you want the president to be working on and the president wants to be focusing on proactively rather than just reacting to whatever the crisis on the day was.

安排日程的难处在于,选择事情,选择你要让总统去做,选择总统需要积极投入,而不仅仅是消极回应的,每天发生的大事情。

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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