Ventilators make it difficult — if not impossible — for them to communicate their needs, or ask questions about their treatment or survival chances. Dr.

机械通风设备使他们难于(即使并非不可能)表达他们的需要，或者是询问有关他们治疗情况或幸存几率的问题。

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Ventilators make it difficult -- if not impossible -- for them to communicate their needs, or ask questions about their treatment or survival chances.

机械通风设备使他们难于（即使并非不可能）表达他们的需要，或者是询问有关他们治疗情况或幸存几率的问题。

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They maintain a hierarchy for survival, not for prestige or arrogance.

它们维持等级制度，是为延续生存而非威望和自满。

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"I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

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We've extrapolated that people have property rights and so whether or not it would be a good thing or a nice thing or even a necessary thing for the survival of some people, we don't see that that justifies the violation of the right that we've logically extrapolated.

我们已经推出人们有财产权,所以，就算是为了做好事，做善事,甚至是为了让某些人活下去而必须做的事，那也是不能证明，侵犯这些推定的权利,就是正当的。

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