And I also didn't want to leave you thinking this was all about abstract ideology.

我也不想让你们以为,这些都是抽象的意识形态

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I'm thinking of the general problem of the abstraction of virtue, an abstract notion of virtue. Think of all the questions that all of us at some point or other tend to associate with virtue.

我在思考贞操这个抽象概念，贞操这一抽象的概念，想想所有那些,我们时不时的会由贞操想到的问题。

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