In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

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I mean, technically, if I want to personally go out and kill someone because they offend me, that is self possession.

我是说，理论上讲，如果因为别人冒犯我,我就要亲自动手杀了他，这也算自主权。

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What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?

如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑，会引起怎样的后果呢？

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It's perfectly impossible, I think, to imagine a stronger statement than this of the authority that Milton gives, the intellectual self-possession that he ascribes, to the individual.

我认为这完全是有可能的，去想一个比弥尔顿,这个理论更有力的论述，他认为每个个人拥有的沉着冷静和泰然自若。

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I think that there's a problem here with that we're assuming that a person has self possession when they live in a society.

我觉得这样的假定是有问题的,假定一个人生活在社会中,也能完全拥有自主权。

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And if you disagree with that, you must believe in the principle of self possession.

不同意这一点的，你肯定相信自我拥有的原则。

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I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

我认为如果你选择生活在社会中,就不可能完全地自我拥有,因为你不能无视其他人的存在。

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It's the idea of self possession if you want to take right seriously.

是尊重人权,自然会接受自我拥有的原则。

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Victoria, are you questioning the fundamental premise of self possession?

维多利亚，你是在质疑,自我拥有这一基本原则吗？

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Nozick doesn't himself fully develop the idea of self possession.

诺齐克并没有独立创建,自我拥有理论。

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Self possession only to a certain extent because I'm living in a society where I have to take account of the people around me.

自我拥有是有限度的,因为我生活在社会上,我必须考虑到周围人的权利。

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Yes. I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

是的，我认为如果你生活在社会中,就不可能完全拥有自主权,因为你不能无视其他人的存在。

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Before justifying the act of stealing, you have to look at violating the right that we've already agreed exists, the right of self possession and the possession of, I mean, your own things.

在判定这个偷盗是否合法之前，你得首先看到,它侵犯了我们已经认同的权利，即自我拥有的权利，拥有自己东西的权利。

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