来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第20集 第20集》
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But there's no unpredictability.但这些都是可预见的 -
Because of the birthmark,因为这个胎记 -
everybody knows exactly how much longer they've got.准确地记录着每个人还剩下多长时间 -
Well, so in our world we don't have that.然而我们的世界不存在那样的胎记 -
In our world, not only do we have variability,在我们的世界 不仅仅存在差异性 -
we've got unpredictability. Does that make things better?还有不可预见性 那么这使死亡更好吗 -
Or does that make things worse?还是让它更糟糕 -
Would it be better to know when you were going to die?预知死期到底好不好 -
Well, one way in which unpredictability死亡的不可预知性所带来 -
at least has the potential of making things worse is this.至少算得上潜在的害处正在于此 -
Because you don't know how much more time you've got--由于你不知道自己还剩多少时间 -
You can make a guess based on statistics,你可以根据统计数据做个猜想