Sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences and in the state of the world that it brought about.

有时我们很想依据行为所产生的后果和对世界的影响，判断其道德性。

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Consequentialist moral reasoning locates morality in the consequences of an act, in the state of the world that will result from the thing you do.

结果主义道德推理将道德建立在一个行为的结果之上与你所作所为之后的外部世界的状态。

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While our laws imply that morality is fixed, Hardin made the point that "the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed."

虽然法律暗示道德固定不变，但是哈丁指出“行为是否道德，为什么会有这样的行为，那是当时的社会制度造成的”。

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Consequentialist moral reasoning locates morality in the consequences of an act, in the state of the world that will result from the thing you do.

后果主义道德推理,认为是否道德取决于行为的后果，取决于你的行为对外界所造成的影响。

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We noticed that sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences, in the results, in the state of the world that it brought about.

我们发现有时，我们倾向于,依据行为所产生的后果，以及对外界的影响，判断其是否道德。

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