来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡第20集第20集》

Well, you might think it's an empirical question,

你可能觉得这是实证问题
and in fact I am inclined to think it's an empirical question,

事实上我倾向于把它考虑成
varying from person to person.

关于个体差异的实证问题
But it's worth taking a moment to flag the fact that

但我们必须明确这样一个事实
there are people, there are philosophers,

有一些人一些哲学家
who think we can generalize across all humans.

认为这种假设适用于所有人
You might say that optimists

乐观主义者认为
are people who think that for everybody

对于任何人
in every case, in every circumstance,

在任何事件任何情形下
the total is always positive.

最终结果一定是正数
"Life's always worth living;

"生命总是有意义的
it's always better than non-existence."

好死不如赖活着"