Faced with what looks from afar like a Hobbesian war of all against all, if not a descent into hell itself, the normal instinct of human beings to exercise their moral faculties grows numb.

面对着好像离自己很远的“所有人针对所有人”的“霍布斯战争”，只要自己还没有卷入，人都会本能的启动自我保护机制，变得麻木起来。

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“Darwin’s starting point, ” they write, “was the abolitionist belief in blood kinship, a ‘common descent’ ” of all human beings.

他们写到：“达尔文的出发点就是一个废奴主义者的信仰：人类起源于同一祖先。”

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In teaching our common descent with animals, we also have to examine what is special about human beings, and why they deserve to be treated differently and granted certain rights.

在教育孩子我们与动物具有相同的血统中，我们也要检讨人类有何特殊性，以及他们为何要区别对待并享有一定的权利。

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Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle.

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