That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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In one of their most famous examples, they asked people the following question: Suppose you had bought expensive tickets to a concert, very expensive, you paid $200 for each ticket.

在他们其中一项极其著名的案例中，他们询问了人们如下的问题：,假设你已经买了几张昂贵的音乐会票，昂贵之极，每张票价值200美元。

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She just made the people mad, that was all."

她让人恼火之极"

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