For it is peculiar to man as compared to other animals that he alone has a perception of " good and bad, just and unjust and other things."

因为对比于其它动物,是人类特有的,人类能感受出,善与恶正义与不公还有其它的事务“

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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The story "bad to good" is the kind of story we want for ourselves, while the story "good to bad" is the kind of story we don't want for ourselves.

由坏到好“的故事“,我们都想要，“由好到坏“的故事“,我们都不想要。

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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