来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第21集 第21集》

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  It's a tempting thought right?
  听上去无懈可击 对吗
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  To go philosophically from
  从哲学的角度看
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  life's so bad given the nature of the human condition,
  人类境况导致生命如此糟糕
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  life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it
  我们最终必将死亡 与其浅尝辄止
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  than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.
  还不如从未体验
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  But it's a tempting philosophical thought to say,
  于是我们想当然地认为
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  "Once I've shown it's better never to have been born,
  "因为不出生还好些
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  it follows that suicide is the appropriate response."
  所以我理应选择自杀"
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  But in fact, as a matter of logic, that doesn't follow at all.
  但其实这点在逻辑上根本说不通
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  Because if you think about it,
  因为你想想
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  suicide doesn't change
  自杀并未能改变
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  the fundamental nature of the human condition,
  人类境况的本质