Ok I've never even seen it, so that's good -- you must be better travelled than I.

有一部分，我从来没见过这是什么,很好，你们旅游的比我多哈。

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But it's so much better now and I really never felt unsafe.

现在这里好多了，我真的从来不会觉得不安全。

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It's better to have been born than never to-- even though that's followed by death-- than never to have been born at all.

出生还是好于永远不-,就算生后即是死-,还是好于永远都不出生。

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People who have seen this before, done it before, lived through it, and now you can count on them not to run away, better than you can on a fresh recruit who's never done this before.

有经验,杀过人,亲历过战争的人,往往可以靠得住,不至于临阵脱逃,从没参加过战斗的新兵蛋子一般都不怎么靠谱

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We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

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But it's a tempting philosophical thought to say, "Once I've shown it's better never to have been born, " it follows that suicide is the appropriate response."

但这是一个引诱人的哲学想法，“一旦我明白了最好还是不要出生，就会出自杀是合适行动的结论“

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You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

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I call the second argument "The argument from recycling"-- not the best label I suppose, but I've never been able to come up with a better one.

我把第二个观点称为"循环观点",可能这不是最好的名称,但是我没有想到更好的

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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