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That was fascinating. But how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a "loser,"
說的真好。你要如何與自己和解，把一個人稱為失敗者是糟糕的，
with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of your life,
但許多人都想掌握自己的生活，
and that a society that encourages that, perhaps has to have some winners and losers?
一個追求這些的社會難免要有贏家和輸家？
Yes, I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress,
是的，我只是想提出在輸贏的過程中，有太多偶然，
because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice.
今日我們太講求所有事情的正義和公平，政治人物總是在談論正義。
Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible.
我非常支持正義，我只是覺得那不可能。
So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us,
我們應該盡力，盡力去追求正義，但我們也應該記得我們所面對的，
whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard.
無論在他們人生中發生過什么，偶然總是一個強烈的因素。
That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
我希望大家留一點空間這么想，不然真令人有一種幽閉恐怖癥的感覺。
I mean, do you believe that you can combine your kind of kinder, gentler philosophy of work with a successful economy?
我是說，你是否相信在這種溫和的哲學下可以產生一個發達的經濟？
Or do you think that you can't, but it doesn't matter that much that we're putting too much emphasis on that?
還是你認為那不可行？還是我們這樣反復提醒人們也不甚重要？
The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them,
夢魘是相信恐嚇人們是刺激他們發奮的最好辦法，
and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge.
或是環境越殘酷，就會有越多人接受挑戰。
You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad?
你必須想，你的理想父親是怎樣的？
And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle.
你的理想父親往往是嚴厲又溫和的。
And it's a very hard line to make.
雖然這界限很難畫定。
We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes,
我們社會需要的模范性人物，是像一個理想父親，不要走極端，
which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
不要完全集權、純粹紀律，也不要模糊馬虎，亂無規章。
Alain De Botton. Thank you very much.
阿蘭·德波頓。謝謝各位。
