爭論無休無止的十大問題(下)

tion or Pro-life?

5.贊不贊同流產

Does a woman have the right to control her body by ending a life inside her? When is a fetus truly alive? Is all life truly precious? What happens when a woman is raped and becomes pregnant – is that life still precious? There may never be answers to these questions; however, the government has helped us out many times by entering its own opinion whether the pro-lifers like it or not.

一個成年女性是否有權利決定她肚子裏面的生命的生死？哪個階段能被定爲胎兒真正存在的階段？是否所有的生命都是真正寶貴的？如果一名女性是因爲被強姦而懷孕，那麼她肚子裏的生命還是珍貴的嗎？這些問題也許永遠不會有固定的答案，但是我們的政府已經多次幫我們解決了這個問題，並把它們自己的想法不顧支持墮胎者的意見而強加給人們。

will or Destiny?

4.自由意志還是命運論

The free will or destiny argument stems back to the Christian doctrine that God is omniscient and has seen everything that will happen. So if God can see everything that happens, is it free will or destiny that makes you choose to continue reading? Some have argued that God knows you will read this but you still have a choice. However, if the path is already apparent to one being, then the path has already been decided for you. However, that directly contradicts our everyday actions where we constantly make decisions – is something, a destiny foreseen by God, guiding us or are we truly free of the strictures of destiny?

所謂的自由意志或命運論起源於基督教教義，基督教認爲，無所不能的上帝能預見一切。如果真是如此，那促使你繼續閱讀本文的，到底是你的自由意志，還是命運？有些人認爲，上帝知道你會繼續讀下去，但你仍然有選擇權。然而，當人生之路已無比清晰時，這條路其實已經是你的命中註定了。但這卻直接否定了我們不斷做決定的日常行爲——那麼，我們究竟是受到了上帝所預見的命運指引，還是我們實則能夠完全擺脫命運的枷鎖？

ls – Relative or Universal?

3.相對道德觀還是普適道德觀

Like the question of gun control, whether ethics being morally relative or universal comes down to whether the good of the one outweighs the good of the many. If it is fine to sleep with another man's wife in one society but not in another, then the problem is that the morals are relative to the society or person. But why wouldn't it be universal that it is wrong to sleep with another man's wife or woman's husband in any society? Why is it OK to speed, when it is breaking the law? Shouldn't breaking any law be just as wrong? If you would never steal a person's purse, why would you pirate a DVD?

就像槍支管制問題一樣，倫理觀僅僅是道德問題還是具有普適性主要涉及個人利益是否大於多數人的利益。如果與有夫之婦偷情在一個社會是被允許的，而在另一個社會不被允許，那這裏涉及到的道德問題是與個體和社會相關的。那這種偷情行爲爲什麼不能具有普適性，在所有社會都被認爲是不可取的呢？爲什麼即使違反法律，超速也不是什麼大問題？觸犯法律難道不是無論如何都是錯的嗎？如果你永遠不會去偷別人的錢包，那你爲什麼又會去製作盜版光碟？

chicken or the egg?

2.先有雞還是先有蛋？

Perhaps one of the most fun arguments on this list, the chicken or the egg debate has raged for centuries mainly because it asks the questions does the animal evolve and then reproduce or was it hatched? That debate can then be transferred to our own existence, which leads into the argument of Evolution or Creation.

也許這是這個榜單上最有趣的爭論話題之一。關於“先有雞還是先有蛋”的爭論已經風靡了好幾個世紀，因爲這涉及到雞是先發展進化、再繁殖，還是由蛋孵化而來的問題。這個爭論可以遷移到我們的自身存在，也導致了進化論和創造論之間長久的分歧。

God Exist?

1.上帝真的存在嗎？

Since the dawn of recorded time, there have been people trying to prove that there is a higher being or beings that have caused the worlds and its creation. Organized religion comes down to having faith that there is a higher being and a place to go after death. Most people, if not already deeply religious in their life, find religion and start believing as they near their twilight years because they want to believe there is somewhere to go and someone to be with. So the question is how do you prove that god, in which ever religion you believe, exists?

自從有歷史記錄的第一個黎明開始，就有人試圖證明有比人類更高級的存在創造了現在的世界。宗教組織歸根結底都信奉有這個“高級的存在”，並且人在死後都會到另一個世界去。大多數人，如果不是一開始就篤信宗教，在將近暮年時接觸宗教並開始虔誠皈依，是因爲他們想要相信死後還有另一個世界可去，還有同行之人。所以問題是，不論皈依什麼宗教，你如何證明你所信奉的上帝是存在的？

翻譯:哈利小王子 來源：前十網