Because if you were dead, you'd have neither pleasure nor pain.

死了即不会感到快乐也不会感到痛苦。

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You can't have slaves without wealth, because you got to feed them at the very least, and no matter how wicked a master you are, dead slaves are no good to you.

养奴隶没钱是不行的,因为不管你有多恶劣,也得供给他们生存的食物,死人是毫无用处的

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So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

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Although I am skeptical about that claim, I am going to continue giving it to the person who makes this argument, because I'm not so prepared to admit that you can't picture being dead.

虽然我本身对这个说法表示怀疑，我还是要继续,依照提出的这个论点，因为我还没有准备好承认,人无法想象死亡这件事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But at least it doesn't seem to be the sort of argument, unlike some of the arguments I've considered last time about oh, nobody believes they're going to die because you can't picture being dead or what have you.

但这至少比我上次思考的，认为没有人相信自己会死，因为你不能想象死亡是什么样子,之类的论据有道理。

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