Below we consider a further reason behind Rawls's rejection of the state of nature: it does not adequately allow for impartial judgment and the equality of persons.

下面，我们考察暗藏于罗尔斯拒绝自然状态背后的进一步的原因：它并不足以包容公正的判断和人们之间的平等。

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Their idea of personal liberty with absolute equality before the law for all persons was rapidly becoming a reality.

他们关于法律面前人人自由平等的理念很快就变成了现实。

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The equality of men concerns their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it.

人与人之间的平等是基于他们的人格尊严，和源于这尊严的的权利。

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This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law in accordance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action