Some Americans had trouble understanding the economic reason why food had to be destroyed so people could have enough to eat.

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I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

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And one reason Bowman believes this is that we have such a difficult time in understanding other peoples and other cultures is that the very idea of defending one's honor has largely been devalued in the modern west.

鲍曼给出了一个理由,正是因为西方社会中,对维护荣誉的观念早已淡化,才导致他们对其他社会群体,和特定文化的不理解。

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