Why should citizens of one state, namely one's own have any moral priority over the citizens of another state when, again, we don't know them and we may well be mistaken in our assumption ? that they are enemies or friends?

为何一国的公民，即为何某人能拥有,凌驾其它城邦公民的道德优势,尤其是我们根本不了解他们,我们可能误将他们,错认为是敌人或朋友？

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They may do it in different forms; they may make mistakes; they may be mistaken about where God resides.

他们可能以不同的方式实践，也可能会犯错误;,可能会误解了上帝的存在。

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Or thinking about them in materialistic terms might be greatly confused or mistaken.

或是把它们当作物理对象,本身就是种混淆或是错误

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And what I'm going to be doing, what I'm going to be arguing in this class, is that that set of views is pretty much mistaken from beginning to end.

我准备做什么，我准备在这里和你们辩论，那个观点从一开始到结束都是相当错误的。

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And the myth has to do with these sort of pictures I was just describing where we don't actually live on the surface of the Earth of in the light, but rather live in certain hollows in the dark where we're mistaken about the nature of reality.

那个传说与我一直形容的,这个大局有关,我们并不真正生活在地表,生活在阳光里,而是生活在某种暗无天日的黑洞中,一个我们都误解了现实本质的地方

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