Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

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But I guess Locke would be against suicide, and that's still my own consent. I agree by taking my life.

但我估计洛克会反对自杀，其实自杀同样是出于自己意愿，我同意放弃自己生命。

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And so we'll end the semester by thinking about questions along the lines of the rationality and morality of suicide.

我们将通过思考,自杀的合理性和道德性,结束这个学期。

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Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

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We have to exclude certain causes, like suicide, in the case of life insurance.

我们得排除某些特定情况，例如在人寿保险中自杀为除外责任。

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Right? We are kind of suicide bomber.

就像自杀式袭击者那样。

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This is called a suicide gene.

所以这种基因也叫自杀基因

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Nine-eleven on the United States on September 11 2001] for example a moral law that refused to allow the statesmen to protect the community in times of crisis would not be a principle of natural right it would be a suicide note.

举，911，为例,一部道德法],拒绝允许政治家,在有危机时适切地保护其社群,那就不是自然权利的原则,而是部自杀式的批注。

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Before we get to suicide, you might say, the question that's going to entertain us for the remaining few weeks is this.

在我讲到自杀之前，你可能会说，剩下几个星期里让我们有兴趣的,问题是这样一个问题。

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Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

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We're coming on toward the end of the semester, and the last topic we'll be talking about is indeed the topic of suicide.

我们就要到学期末了，我们最后一个要讨论的话题,正是自杀话题。

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When, if ever, is suicide an appropriate, ? rational or moral response to one's situation?

什么时候，如果有的话，自杀是合适的，合理的或道德的回应呢？

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If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

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So suicide is both immoral on the one hand and never makes sense.

自杀是不道德且不被人理解的。

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It doesn't mean of course that suicide isn't ever an appropriate response.

当然不是说,自杀从来不是一种合适的回应。

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I see suicide. I see slavery.

从书中我看到了自杀，看到了奴隶制。

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