Even if a pattern of behaviour is almost universal, we can't know in advance if it is a law of nature we cannot change or simply a remnant of our primitive past that we can and should modify.

即使一种行为模式是近乎普世的，我们也无法预先知道它究竟是一个我们不能改变的自然法则，还是只是一种我们能够并且应该改变的原始陋习。

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She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated.

对于她反对的事，就像她不能接受自然法里说的，个人是无法成功的说法一样。

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And so the next thing you do is you call up a journal and say I've discovered a fundamental law of nature.

下一步你做的事是打电话给一个杂志，并宣称你发现了一条自然界的基础定律。

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So an arbitrary taking of property would be a violation of the law of nature and would be illegitimate.

所以任意掠夺他人财产,就侵犯了自然法，就是非法的。

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And so the next thing you do is you call up a journal and say I've discovered a fundamental law of nature.

下一步你做的事是打电话给一个杂志,并宣称你发现了一条自然界的基础定律。

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And the reason is that even in the state of nature, there is a kind of law.

因为即使处在自然状态下，仍受某种法的约束。

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