"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.

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But it's a tempting philosophical thought to say, "Once I've shown it's better never to have been born, " it follows that suicide is the appropriate response."

但这是一个引诱人的哲学想法，“一旦我明白了最好还是不要出生，就会出自杀是合适行动的结论“

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I'm not sure that McCain would have been a whole lot better,

我不知道要是麦凯恩当选了会不会好一点，

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How much better off or worse off would I have been?

我会更幸福还是更不幸？

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Or if I decided to become an artist or a scholar or a beach bum or a farmer, how much better off or worse off would I have been?

如果我决定成为一名艺术家或学者,一个流浪汉或一个农夫，我会更幸福还是更不幸？

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