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几个世纪来，科学被排拒在善恶对错的问题以外。Sam Harris提出科学不但可以，更应当成为道德问题的准则，为人类设立新人道价值，带领我们走向真正的幸福生活。
v. 打败，战胜，打，敲打，跳动
n. 敲打，
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- Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this,
- 普遍来说，我们的学术界是这样想的，虽然我们不喜欢这样
- we might think of this as "wrong" in Boston or Palo Alto,
- 我们觉得这样是错误的，在波士顿或帕羅奧多
- who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture
- 但我们怎么能说这些古老文化的骄傲后裔
- are wrong to force their wives and daughters to live in cloth bags?
- 不应该强迫它们的妻子和女儿住在衣袋里？
- And who are we to say, even, that they're wrong to beat them with lengths of steel cable,
- 我们怎么能说，他们是错误的，当他们用钢索痛打她们
- or throw battery acid in their faces if they decline the privilege of being smothered in this way?
- 或是把强酸泼到她们脸上，如果她们拒绝被这样对待？
- Well, who are we not to say this?
- 我们凭什么可以这样说呢？
- Who are we to pretend that we know so little about human well-being
- 我们怎么可以装作我们完全不了解人类的幸福
- that we have to be non-judgmental about a practice like this?
- 或是我们应该对此类行为保持中立？
- I'm not talking about voluntary wearing of a veil
- 我不是在说那些自发性的蒙头
- women should be able to wear whatever they want, as far as I'm concerned.
- 我认为女人应该想穿什么就穿什么
- But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse,
- 但自发性是什么意思？在一个女孩被强暴，他的父亲的第一个反应往往是谋杀她以免羞愧
- rather often, is to murder her out of shame?
- 的这种社会，自发性是什么意思？
- Just let that fact detonate in your brain for a minute:
- 让这些事实在你脑中转一转：
- Your daughter gets raped, and what you want to do is kill her.
- 你的女儿被强暴了，你的反应竟然是杀掉她
- What are the chances that represents a peak of human flourishing?
- 请问你真的觉得这应该是人类幸福的一个可能吗？
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