Some Papua New Guineans associate AIDS and HIV with witchcraft and sorcery and there have been reports of infected people being thrown into rivers, buried alive in graves or being starved to death.
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Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.
保守的有价值容器理论认为,活着有一定的价值,但是按道理它可以被超越。
00 Suppose that being alive per se is worth plus a hundred points, just to make up some number.
假设活着本身价值超过,这只是例举数字说明。
That's to your art, to your enjoy the moment of creativity So, what Welles is really espousing is the goodness of being alive and being creative.
这些对你来说是艺术,是享受,创造性的一刻,那又如何呢,威尔斯真正提倡的,是活着,并充满创造力。
In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.
718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他
It's as though we've been assuming, and I have been assuming up to this moment, that being alive per se has no value.
就像我们所假设的,当然这也是我到目前为止一直假设的,即活着本身没有价值。
It's as though being alive is infinitely valuable in comparison to questions about the contents.
活着似乎有着无限的价值,如果和生活内容相比的话。
My body stops being alive at the very same moment that I cease being alive.
我的肉体在我停止生存时也停止了生存。
Just like,with the body view,we wanted to say, Being alive is not all it's cracked up to be, the real question is not,am I alive,on the body view?
从肉体理论上,我们想要说,存活一事并非所想,真正的问题是,肉体理论角度看来,我还活着吗?
So it looks as though the personality theorist is going to have to introduce a distinction between my being alive, on the one hand,and my body being alive,on the other.
所以看起来人格理论必须,要弄清楚我的存活,和我的肉体存活之间的区别。
You're saying that being alive per se has some positive value.
你说活着本身是有些正面价值的。
Screw me up enough and maybe I'd enjoy being alive forever.
改变我的人性,也许我会永远享受。
And so even if, you might say, the way my life is going in terms of its contents is bad, being alive per se might still be a good thing.
所以,就算,我的生活内容方面非常糟糕,活着本身也许仍然是件好事。
Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.
与之相反,你可以想象有些人会认为,活着本身有着巨大的价值,不管生活内容有多糟糕,总和都会是正数。
The value of being alive per se outweighs that.
活着本身的价值会超越它。
Whether it gets outweighed easily, or whether it's very, very difficult and the contents have to be horrible to outweigh it, depends on how much value you think being alive per se has.
不管是轻易被超越,还是它很困难被超越,还是生活内容要非常糟糕才能超越它,这取决于你认为生活本身有多少价值。
So you're always better off being alive.
所以活着总是会更好。
So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.
所以这差不多就是人的生活,当说到,当人们说到,活着本身是有价值的,我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。
In C,I can exist without being a corpse; or rather,without being alive,as a corpse.
在C阶段,我可以不作为尸体而存在;,准确地说,作为尸体,我是死的。
sometimes I'm drawn toward the neutral view; sometimes I'm drawn toward the thought that being alive per se is good for you.
有时候我更赞同中性理论;,有时候我赞同,活着本身就是好事。
So we need some account to distinguish between suspended animation and out and out being alive.
我们必须用一种说法,将假死状态和非存活状态区别开来。
Well, actually, the first remark is, probably wouldn't be completely accurate to say, to describe these views as saying, " "It's being alive per se."
实际上,第一个评价是,也许这种说法不完全准确,他们把这些观点描述成为,“活着本身“
And even if we accept the valuable container theory, and so we say, " "Hah, you know, being alive per se is worth something as well."
如果我们接受有价值容器理论,我们会说,“活着本身也是有价值的“
So what matters to me isn't just being alive, but being back here during Phase B.
所以重要的就不是活着,而是回到B阶段。
In addition to not being broken, what do you need to be alive?
除了没有被破坏,怎样才算活着?
We'd being saying on the personality theory, I don't exist,but I'm alive.
在人格理论下,我们说,我不存在,但依然存活。
I can still be alive without being a professor.
我能在不作为教授的情况下活着。
On the other hand, if the balance from here on out would've been negative, then it's good for me that I died now instead of being kept alive with a life not worth living.
另一方面,如果从现在开始计算其结果是负数,那么我现在死去就是好事,因为我不用不值地活着。
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