"Shipping noise falls across the same frequencies that these animals use for all their vital behaviors - for feeding,for finding mates, for avoiding predators and for navigating."

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Let's just suppose that,for the sake of avoiding those complications, that when my body dies,it gets destroyed.

为了避免这些难题，然我们假设，当我的肉体死亡，它就被破坏。

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Well, one natural suggestion is that pleasure is worth having for its own sake and pain is probably worth avoiding for its own sake.

一个很自然的提议是快乐,是因其自身品质而值得拥有,痛苦因其自身品质而值得避免。

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It's a very tempting view to think, what makes life worth having and the only thing worth having for its own sake, is having pleasure and avoiding pain.

它也是一种很有诱惑力的观点，什么让生命值得拥有，而唯一,因其自身品质值得拥有的东西，就是享受快乐，避免痛苦。

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What things are worth having for their own sake, whether or not those things also have instrumental value, What things are worth having for their own sake ? and what things are worth avoiding for their own sake?

什么东西是因其自身品质而值得拥有，不管它们是否有利用价值，什么东西是因其自身品质而值得拥有,什么东西是因其自身品质而应避免？

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