society

Suppose that we, with our talents, inhabited not our society, technologically advanced, highly litigious, but a hunting society, or a warrior society.

假如我们拥有这些天赋 但是却生活在一个技术落后 没有法律制约的狩猎社会 或者战争社会里

I think it's in so far as we, as the society give us something, gives us protection, safety, security, then we owe the society something but nothing beyond what we give the society.

就社会所赋予我们的东西而言 比如提供保护 安全 保障 我们的确有责任 但除了这些之外 别无其他

If we want to say that your obligation to society is a moral one, that means that prior to knowing exactly what that society is going to be like or what your position is going to be in that society, that means that you have a binding obligation to a complete unknown body that could be, completely foreign to all of your personal beliefs or what you would hold to be correct.

如果说对社会的义务出于道德 那意味着 在确切知晓这个社会的 发展趋势之前 或者明确你在社会中的角色之前 你就已经对一个完全未知的团体 承担必须履行的义务了 这个团体可能与你个人信仰完全相悖 或者与你的价值观相悖

It's important to make distinction between a secret society and a society with secrets.

明确区分秘会和有秘密的社团非常重要

If we make it illegal, then we're saying collectively as a society it's not okay, and that's why societies have different beliefs.

如果我们将其定为非法 那我们作为一个社会整体 就不能接受这一做法 所以才有不同观点

Anthropologically, when a society feels threatened by an individual, that society tries to eliminate the threat.

根据人类学 当一个团体 因一个人感到威胁 这个团体会试图清除这个威胁

Every society has its fringe dwellers, and every society fears its fringe dwellers.

每个社会都有边缘群体 每个社会都惧怕边缘群体

It turns out, lucky for you, that you have the traits that society needs at the moment, so we propose to exploit your assets for society's advantage.

你很幸运 你刚好具有现在社会所需要的特质 所以我们希望能开发你的个人资质 以此来为社会谋福利

I think it's the idea that, you know, we participate in society, we pay our taxes, we vote, this is why we could say that we owe something to society.

这种观点是 我们参与社会发展 纳税 投票选举 所以说 我们对社会负有责任

Any scientific study of human society will illustrate the success of that society is dependent upon the function of the collective.

任何对于人类社会的科学研究都表明 社会的成功依赖于 集体的作用