The defenses had to do with necessity, their dire circumstance, and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter.

有人说他们在那样的处境下，不得已而为之，并且暗含了“人数重要“的理念。

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One thing that does matter to our base level of wellbeing which is external circumstance is democracy versus oppression.

对基础幸福水平很重要的一样东西,它是一个外在因素，那就是民主和压迫。

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It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

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We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

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So you just say,okay fine, this is the macro circumstance that we're dealing with and we're going to do absolutely the best job we can identifying individual,specific,bottom-up opportunities to deploy the funds.

于是你只能说,好吧,这就是我们要应对的宏观环境,我们绝对要全力以赴,发掘独特,明确,由下而上的机会,来配置基金进行投资

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