And what was happening on the police scanner was really interesting because you had ambulances and fire trucks and police cars constantly reporting where they are and what they're doing.
警用扫描仪的作用,非常有趣,因为救护车,和消防车,还有警车不断地,汇报它们的所在地和它们所做的事。
Yeah, I was a fireman for 32 years in London Fire Brigade.
我在伦敦消防队做了32年的消防员。
I read an article a while back about a private fire company, the Salem Fire Corporation, in Arkansas.
我看过一篇关于私人消防公司的文章,在阿肯色州有一家塞伦消防公司。
And where will people come from that, if they all follow the psychology of fear and ? self-interest that Hobbes wants to instill in us?
如果都按霍布斯灌输给我们的那样想,时刻保持着恐惧和利己的心态,那又从哪招募那些消防员,警察和军人呢?
Policemen, firemen, ambulance driver, all those sort of things.
比如警察、消防员、救护车司机,类似这些行业的人。
So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.
所以罗马人会,比如,会驱逐当地志愿消防部门,因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人,尤其是下层阶级集会的场所,在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。
Will not even a Hobbesian society again ? require fire departments?
在霍布斯理想的社会里,就不需要消防部门吗?
Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?
不可能只用拿工资的理由,就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员,警察,军人和争取自由的斗士?
You can sign up with the Salem Fire Corporation, pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire, they will come and put out the fire.
你可以和塞伦消防公司签约,每年支付会员费,如果你的房子着火,他们会来灭火。
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