To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in political life spontaneously and avidly, as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.

说我们本能地会那么做,并不代表,我们自然且贪婪地,忙于政治生活，就像蜘蛛结网,或蚂蚁筑蚁冢。

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As such, it shouldn't be any surprise to you that what I'm going to do as we run through each of these arguments is to say, "I'm not convinced by it and here's why."

因此,你们大可不必惊异于,我接下来的举动,当我们讨论这些论点时,我会说,我并不赞同这个观点,我的理由是

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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Now as I say, I believe that when push comes to shove, we do need to get clear about both of those questions and so that's going to take the first several weeks of the class.

如果想深入了解这个话题,就必须弄清楚这两个问题,这就是头几周课的主要内容

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