So this becomes where defining the system and the boundaries and everything becomes important.

因此问题就变成了,如何定义系统和边界,那么一切都变得重要了。

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Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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