Or is it just because I don't want to confront the fact that people are the way they are, which is to say fundamentally self-interested?

还是说仅仅是因为我不愿意相信人类就像他们说的那样，从根本上是自利的这个事实呢？

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If you say, 'God, I just want to do what you put me on earth to do,' I guarantee you, God will bless everything you touch because God is looking for people he can use to fulfill his purposes.

如果你说，“神啊，我只想做你要我在尘世中做的事情。”我向你保证，神会祝福你面对的一切，因为神希望用他所能利用的人来实现他的目标。

youdao

People might take everything they say as truth just because they are evidently more advanced than humans.

人们可能会仅仅因为他们比人类明显更高级而将他们所说的一切都视为真理。

youdao

"I used to dream about that when I was a little kid. But,as far as how I view myself, I never want that to change, because you just can't believe in all the hype that people say about you.

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Because people view themselves as committed to an ethics of autonomy, they can't just say it's disgusting.

因为他们视自己为,遵循自治道德的，他们不能说“这很恶心”

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We cannot, however, say that just because people are building taller buildings we must be in a credit bubble.

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But I think a lot of times, just people don't believe it because they say, well, I've never been polled.

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To say later baptisms have increased just because people want to get their child into school is not correct, and is at least a vast over-simplification.

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