八十年代初,在如今正分崩离析的布罗德沃特农场(Broadwater Farm)的社会底层,一群年轻人组成了托特纳姆曼德姆帮派(Tottenham Mandem),并开始以贩卖毒品和街头抢劫赚大钱。
By the early Eighties, the youths of the crumbling Broadwater Farm estate had formed the Tottenham Mandem and were starting to make serious money from selling drugs and carrying out street robberies.
这个社会里仅有的那一点点人性、道德与良心却偏偏残存在社会底层的劳苦大众那里。
The precious humanity, moral, and conscience unexpectedly remained in the toiling people who lived at the bottom of the society.
从很大程度上说,存活下来基于人的适应能力,而在该方面,那些处于社会底层的人比社会上层的人更有优势。
Survival is to a great extent based on the ability to adapt, and in this way those on the bottom today have an advantage over those on the top.
Because you would know being a good utilitarian that taking some, a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it, but it will make a huge improvement in the lives and in the welfare of those at the bottom.
因为作为一个优秀的功利主义者,你知道,收走一些对他们来说根本无关痛痒的钱,却能大大改善社会底层那些人的生活,增加他们的福利。
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