He may mutilate his ears by piercing them. The middle Assyrian laws also legalized violence against a wife. "When she deserves it" a seignor may pull out the hair of his wife, mutilate or twist her ears.

可以刺伤其耳朵，另外，中亚述法律,也将对妻子的暴力行为合法化了，“如果她是应受的“,自由人可以拔其发，毁其耳。

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You might say, of course the question, what renders authority legitimate, is only possible, or is only raised when authority is in question.

你们可能会说，这个问题当然是，如何使权力合法化这个问题，当然是可能的，或者说当权力出现问题的时候这个问题会自然出现。

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And then there's the whole vast category of racial defense and justification of slavery.

随后有大篇幅的种族辩护,以及奴隶制合法化的阐述

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On the one hand, those voices were ones that were quite condemnatory of the sham Christianity which they saw around them, which justified racism and slavery and oppression.

一方面说，这些声音,为基督教的虚伪,感到可耻，因为事实表明，教堂把种族歧视，奴隶制，压迫合法化。

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The benefits of an action don't justify, don't make the action just.

行为的效益，并不能使行为本身合法化。

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And, again, that is not just what constitutes authority, but what makes authority legitimate.

这已不仅仅是如何构成权力，而是怎样使权力合法化。

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And you might say, what renders it legitimate?

是什么让它合法化？

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Now, there were other localized slave societies, surely; certainly within Africa, to a certain degree even before Europeans arrived and certainly after Europeans arrived, particularly after the regularization of the Atlantic slave trade.

除此之外当然还有很多小区域奴隶社会,非洲当然有,甚至是原始欧洲,欧洲现代人到来后当然更多,特别是在,大西洋奴隶贸易合法化之后

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What renders authority legitimate or respectable?

什么使得权力合法化并让人敬仰？

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