I can't dispose of my life or my liberty or my property in a way that violates my rights.

我不能放弃自己的生命或自由或财产,因为某种程度上说，这侵犯了我的权利。

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What if we have a case where making an exception and violating individual rights actually will make people better off in the long run?

如果有个特例,侵犯个人权利,长远来看，反而让人们获益更多呢？

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So even once the majority is in charge, the majority can't violate your inalienable rights, can't violate your fundamental right to life, liberty, and property.

所以即使多数人掌权，多数人也不能侵犯你不可剥夺的权利，不能侵犯你基本的生命，自由和财产权。

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No parliament, no legislature, however democratic its credentials, can legitimately violate our natural rights.

没有任何议会或立法机构，不管其宣称自己如何民主，能合理侵犯我们的自然权利。

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What does count as a violation is an arbitrary taking because that would essentially say, not only to Bill Gates, but to everyone, there is no rule of law.

只有肆意掠夺才算侵犯自然权利,因为从本质上说，那不仅侵犯了比尔·盖茨，还侵犯了其他人，那样就毫无法治可言。

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I don't think that people should be, should have to convince 280 million others simply in order to exercise their own rights, in order to not have their self ownership violated.

我不认为人们，必须说服其他2亿8千万人,只为了争取自己的权利，只为了保护自我所有权不受侵犯。

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I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their natural right to life.

我想如果你把征兵制,视为政府挑选特定的个人去参战，那确实是对自然权利中生命权的侵犯。

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Before justifying the act of stealing, you have to look at violating the right that we've already agreed exists, the right of self possession and the possession of, I mean, your own things.

在判定这个偷盗是否合法之前，你得首先看到,它侵犯了我们已经认同的权利，即自我拥有的权利，拥有自己东西的权利。

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That violates his rights.

侵犯了他的权利。

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We have to respect persons and if he earned that money fairly without violating anybody else's rights in accordance with the two principles of justice in acquisition and in justice in transfer, then it would be wrong, it would be a form of coercion to take it away.

我们必须要尊重个人,如果他公平地赚到钱,没有侵犯到他人权利,完全遵守了那两条公正原则,最初占有公正原则和转让公正原则，那么向他多征税就是错的，这无异于强取豪夺。

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We've extrapolated that people have property rights and so whether or not it would be a good thing or a nice thing or even a necessary thing for the survival of some people, we don't see that that justifies the violation of the right that we've logically extrapolated.

我们已经推出人们有财产权,所以，就算是为了做好事，做善事,甚至是为了让某些人活下去而必须做的事，那也是不能证明，侵犯这些推定的权利,就是正当的。

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