"It was always thought that you needed a little bit of something to get the system going.

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We have a good system in taxes, but it's imperfect because it hasn't been thought out thoroughly in terms of risk management.

我们有很好的税收制度，但它并不完善,因为它并非完全从风险管理的角度,经过考量而得出的。

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Why did an inhumane institution of course not everybody who defended it thought it was inhumane but why did that system survive, persist and grow?

为什么一个不人道的制度,当然不是所有捍卫它的人都觉得不人道,为什么奴隶制度还是会生根,发芽,成长

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And the thought, of course, is that the robot or the computer is a deterministic system and you can't have free will if you're a deterministic system.

那个想法,当然,是说机器人和电脑只是一种决定论的系统,而如果你是个决定论系统的话,就不可能有自由意志

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