Good people sometimes suffered and died, not because their goodness was being tested, but precisely because there was nothing, no one, to test it.

好人有时会遭遇不幸而死去，不是因为他们的善良需要经受考验，而恰恰是因为没有什么事物或人去考验。

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Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority.

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The participants have taken risks in the process but precisely because the risk of doing nothing was considered greater: another indication that this has been indeed one of those rare circumstances where intervention is called for.

ECONOMIST: Interventionist