他们认为，它应该用来保护个人权利和公共自由，在个人的努力无效时，它具有特殊的作用。

They believed that it should be used to protect individual rights and public liberty, and that it had a special role where individual effort was ineffective.

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不像生活权利，免受折磨和压迫的自由生活，选择个人生活方式不是一项基本的权利。

Unlike the right to life, freedom from torture and free expression, 'personal lifestyle choices are not fundamental rights'.

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越来越多的个人追求生活在自由和尊严中的普世权利。

And more individuals are claiming their universal right to live in freedom and dignity.

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When you hear a slaveholder preach about his individual liberty and his rights, you sometimes wonder, "Come on, where do you get off?"

当你听见一个奴隶主鼓吹,他的个人自由和他的个人权利时,你有时候会想,"拜托,你是怎么做的呢"

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