Not only can we never find the "perfect" punishment, our search for optimum penalties is complicated by our desire for fairness: to let the punishment fit the crime.

我们不仅永远找不到“完美”的惩罚，我们对最优惩罚的追寻也因我们对公平的渴望而复杂化：让惩罚与罪行相称。

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Often, our push towards perfection is not driven by a desire to do our best but by a fear that our work - and our self - isn't good enough.

通常，我们顽固地追求着完美，不是因为“想要做最好的自己”，而是源于对自我以及工作本身的恐惧。

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But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering.What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. "- Henri j."m..

但是与我们面对困难的天性所违背，在苦难中我们最渴望的是以最快的速度逃离或者医治。

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This is not our intention, it is not what we desire, this is not our choice.

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But that does not change our desire to see in Egypt free and fair elections, the ability to assemble, the ability to speak more freely, to be involved in a healthy democracy.

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"Our technology has not caught up with our desire to clean up our mess" in space, Schonberg said.

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