"We do not need to be importing a massive poverty stricken, poorly educated welfare class."

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And if that's the reason, where do those rights come from if not from some idea of the larger welfare or utility or happiness?

如果是那个原因，那这些权利又是从何而来的呢,既然不是为了更大的福利，或曰功利，幸福？

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He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

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