来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第17集 第17集》

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  don't begin to even be in the same ballpark as the moral horror of the loss,
  他们甚至没有出生就被这个灾难
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  the deprivation for all of these unborn possible people.
  剥夺了美好的生命
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  Now, I don't know about you, when I think about it,
  我不知道你怎么想 但就我而言
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  all I can say is
  我能说的仅仅是
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  it doesn't strike me as being a moral catastrophe.
  我没被这个灾难震惊
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  I don't feel anguish and sorrow and dismay at the loss,
  我没有痛不欲生 悲伤气馁
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  at the lack, at the deprivation for the untold billion, billion, billion, billions.
  为了这无数亿亿亿亿亿人的损失
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  But if we give up the existence requirement
  但如果我们不引入存在前提
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  and explain the badness of my death via the deprivation account,
  用剥夺说来解释我的死亡所造成的伤害
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  we do have to say this is a moral tragedy,
  我们确实得承认这是一个伦理灾难
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  the fact that the billions upon billions are never born.
  这数以亿亿亿亿计的没有出生的人的灾难
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  Well, if we're not prepared to say that's a moral tragedy,
  不过 如果我们不承认这是个伦理灾难