It's a law of nature.

而是一种自然法。

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So an arbitrary taking of property would be a violation of the law of nature and would be illegitimate.

所以任意掠夺他人财产,就侵犯了自然法，就是非法的。

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And so the next thing you do is you call up a journal and say I've discovered a fundamental law of nature.

下一步你做的事是打电话给一个杂志,并宣称你发现了一条自然界的基础定律。

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They are unregulated by law; they are unregulated by authority. The state of nature is simply a kind of condition of maximum insecurity, an unregulated market with no common laws or rules to sustain it.

法律，权威使然,自然状态就是,一种最大安全感的状态,是一种没有法律规范维持的,不加管制的市场。

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And the reason is that even in the state of nature, there is a kind of law.

因为即使处在自然状态下，仍受某种法的约束。

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So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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And not only can you punish with death people who come after you seeking to take your life, you can also punish a thief who tries to steal your goods because that also counts as aggression against the law of nature.

不仅可以处死那些,跟踪你想谋害你的人，还可以惩罚想偷你东西的小偷,因为那也算侵犯了自然法。

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