"Last week,the Scottish government made a wrong decision in the wrong way with wrong consequences,"

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We banned that drug and I haven't heard anybody saying that that was a wrong decision, that we should allow pregnant women who want to sleep better to take a drug that will mean their children are born without limbs.

我们禁止了这种药物的使用，但我们从未听说,有人认为这是个错误的决定，也从未有人说，我们应该允许,失眠的孕妇使用这种药品,即使她们的孩子可能从出生就没有四肢。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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