how can you have a platonically just city if most people in it, certainly most people of the auxiliary class are deprived of the pleasures ? and the goods that we desire?

如何建构一座柏拉图式的正义之城,如果大部份居住其中的人，尤其是那些后备阶级,所渴求的愉悦,与动产都己被剥夺？

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If one were faced with starvation, then seeking out fat as we discussed before, is a pretty good idea, but if one is not deprived of calories, then having fat may not be so helpful.

如果一个人面临饥饿,像我们之前讨论的去寻求脂肪,是个好主意,但是如果一个人不消耗热量,那么摄取脂肪就没什么用了

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We have to not talk-- just talk about the good things in the life, but the good of life itself, and we have to notice that perhaps on certain views, for certain cases, it's not really the case that when I die I'm being deprived of a good life.

我们不但要看到-,生活中的美好事物，还要看到活着本身的好处，我们发现也许有某些观点，在某些情况下，情况则不完全是这样,即我死之后不会被剥夺美好的生活。

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