If it cannot live in the hearts of its people, then it must one day die."

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Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

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If you live in a society that operates under those rules, then it should be up to the government to decide how those resources that come back through taxation are distributed because it is through the consent of the government.

如果你在一个按照上述规则运行的社会中生活，那么就应该由政府来决定,如何分配，通过征税收回的资源,因为那是政府一致表决通过的。

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