So the world isn't essentially good in its nature or essentially bad.

因此世界在本质上并没有好坏差别。

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I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

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if something bad happened to me that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

对我来说，如果真有什么不幸，And，me，–,也没有比儿子们弑父娶母更糟糕的事情了。

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