In this case, to optimize for the best of the whole community and the whole user base and over the long term and that's important too, your long over short term.

在这个前提下,去寻求整个社会,以及所有用户的长远利益的最大化,这十分重要，我们寻求长期利益，而非眼前利益。

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The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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