So any kind of ideas, I think any community is defined by its religiosity; they're still made up by normal individuals and human beings.

我想，任何的想法,任何的社会都是由其宗教信仰所定义的,它们仍然是由个人所组成的。

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After all, if you rip out your gun, shoot me in the heart, I bleed to death, we still have a human body in front of us.

毕竟你拔出枪,击中我的心脏,我失血而亡,我还是保持着肉体的形式

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And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."

但另一方面“他继续说，“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活，你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“

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