When I said that questions are important and answers matter less, I am not coming from a point of relativism.

当我说问题重要而答案没那么重要时，我不是从相对论的观点来说的。

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People can be disgusting and if people are seen as disgusting they matter less.

人会变得令人反感,如果我们对他人感到反感，他们的重要性就降低。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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There's a lot of ways to make other people matter less.

要降低他人的重要性有很多方法。

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When you take away somebody's name they matter less.

当你除掉别人的名字时，他们的重要性就降低。

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