让我们从人类的本质和恐惧的本质说起。

Let's start with human nature and the nature of fear.

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食素也好，吃荤也罢，我们烹调的方式表明了人类的本质就是去利用和消化食物。

Humans are designed to use and digest foods that look the way they did when they came from the ground or were cooked fresh from an animal.

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所有上述的困境变量都有一个共同的主题：人类的本质以及他或她跟更大事物的关系。

Allof the dilemmas mentioned above are variations on a common theme: the nature ofa human being and his or her relation to a larger scheme of things.

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And what human rights law making keeps coming back to is the human being, human dignity, the essence of the human.

而且人权法总是要回归到,人类本身，人的尊严，人的本质。

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Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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If you hope to make it with theory of what people are and how people work, you have to explain and talk about language.

如果你想要理解关于人类本质,及其行为模式的理论,就必须得探讨并解释语言

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