sometimes I'm drawn toward the neutral view; sometimes I'm drawn toward the thought that being alive per se is good for you.

有时候我更赞同中性理论;,有时候我赞同,活着本身就是好事。

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We could say that what I've been presupposing up to this point " is the "neutral container theory" of the value of life.

到目前为止我阐述的前提是,生命价值的“中性容器理论。

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If you're a fan of the neutral container theory, you won't have anything extra to add, because life per se is just a zero.

如果你是中性容器理论的粉丝，你就没有任何额外的东西可添加，因为生活本身等于零。

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I can't bring myself to believe it, I have some sympathies for valuable container theories, but I also have some sympathy for neutral container theories.

我无法让自己去相信它，我有点赞同有价值容器理论，但是我也有点赞同中性容器理论。

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We've expanded the list of goods that can go within your life, but for all that, we've still been acting as though the neutral container theory is the right approach.

我们扩展了生活中美好事物的定义，但除此之外，我们的观点仍然是基于,中性容器理论是正确的理论。

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Hedonism is a version of the neutral container theory.

快乐主义就是中性容器理论的一种。

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And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

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