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

假如我們擁有這些天賦 但是卻生活在一個技術落后 沒有法律制約的狩獵社會 或者戰爭社會里

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.

就社會所賦予我們的東西而言 比如提供保護 安全 保障 我們的確有責任 但除了這些之外 別無其他

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.

如果說對社會的義務出于道德 那意味著 在確切知曉這個社會的 發展趨勢之前 或者明確你在社會中的角色之前 你就已經對一個完全未知的團體 承擔必須履行的義務了 這個團體可能與你個人信仰完全相悖 或者與你的價值觀相悖

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

明確區分秘會和有秘密的社團非常重要

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.

如果我們將其定為非法 那我們作為一個社會整體 就不能接受這一做法 所以才有不同觀點

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

根據人類學 當一個團體 因一個人感到威脅 這個團體會試圖清除這個威脅

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

每個社會都有邊緣群體 每個社會都懼怕邊緣群體

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.

你很幸運 你剛好具有現在社會所需要的特質 所以我們希望能開發你的個人資質 以此來為社會謀福利

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.

這種觀點是 我們參與社會發展 納稅 投票選舉 所以說 我們對社會負有責任

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

任何對于人類社會的科學研究都表明 社會的成功依賴于 集體的作用