"There are several and the implementation must now be conducted in a good way and we have discussed human rights violations, we have discussed the need for free media and some other things."

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The negative combination effects that I was talking about are certainly there, but on balance I think the human condition for must of us is a good one.

我所说的负面组合影响是肯定有的，但我认为人类的处境对大部分人来说是好的。

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And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.

而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态，在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。

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And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."

但另一方面“他继续说，“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活，你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“

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