If the Old World invariably prefers guilt to responsibility, it is because the first is less burdensome; so one puts up with a guilty conscience.

如果欧洲因为内疚比负责任少一点负担而持续倾向于内疚的话，那人们就永远忍受着问心有愧的煎熬。

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To put it more clearly, a world that is in competition with itself for labor, resources, and survival is an unsustainable system inherently, for it lacks an external conscience.

讲得更清楚些，一个在劳动、资源和生存三个方面与自己竞争的社会系统，本身就是先天不可持续性，因为这些观点缺乏从外部看问题的良知。

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That inequity alone should stir the conscience of the world - but in some of the poorest countries the life expectancy picture is getting worse.

这种单独的不平等也应唤起了世人的良知——但在一些最贫穷的国家，人们的平均寿命前景是越来越黯淡。

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Mr. GERSON: This is, you know, one of those places in the world where the conscience of the world is tested and engaged and where failure would have a harsh historical judgment.

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