Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

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So an introduction is not only valuable for those of us who simply wish to acquire knowledge.

所以入门课不仅对那些,想获取知识的人很有价值。

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I think we all vote and amend and have activism of our values, religious or not.

我们每个人都有投票权，希望实现,我们自己的价值观，不管这是否牵扯到宗教。

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It's a way to avoid the argument; although, for what it's worth, I should mention I don't myself believe that it's false that we have free will.

这是回避这条论证的一种方法,尽管这条论证有它自身的价值,应该说,我个人认为,人有自由意志,并没有错

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.. So I'm going to restrict myself, at least when I think about it, to versions that say, it's the life of a person per se that's valuable.

所以我会坚持，至少是对我来说，我会坚持，作为人活着的本身是有价值的这种观点。

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There's a kind of aspect of value for many of us where we feel that something's especially valuable if it won't endure, if it's fragile, or if it's rare.

对我们许多人来说，有一种价值的方面在于,如果某事物不是持续的，如果是易碎的,或者是稀有的，我们就觉得它特别有价值。

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So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.

所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。

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