每天一小段英语（80）

命运号角

Argument: Cryonics is trying to play God and cheat death.
争论：人体冷冻法是假死，戏弄上帝。

Typical cryonicist response: Is resuscitating someone whose heart has stopped playing God and cheating death? How about chemotherapy?
回应：心肺复苏是假死，戏弄上帝？化学疗法呢？

Argument: Cryonics is a scam.
争论：人体冷冻法是骗局。

Typical cryonicist response: The major cryonics companies are all nonprofits, the employees are paid modestly and the board members running the company (who are all signed up for cryonics themselves) aren’t paid at all. So who exactly is benefiting from this scam?
回应：主要的这几家冷冻公司是非营利的，员工的工资很少，董事会成员（都已经报名冷冻且不计报酬）在运作公司。那么谁在骗局中受益呢？

Argument: “If you have enough money [for cryonics], then you have enough money to help somebody in need today.” — Bioethicist Kenneth Goodman
争论：生物伦理学家Kenneth Goodman说：“如果你有足够的钱冷冻，那么你就有足够的钱帮助那些如今需要救济的人。”

Actual cryonicist response: “If you have enough money for health insurance (which costs a lot more than cryonics), then you have enough money to help somebody else in need today. In fact, if you have enough money for any discretionary expenditure (travel, sports, movies, beer), then you have enough money to help somebody in need today. Of all the ways people choose to spend substantial sums of money over a lifetime, singling out the health care choice of cryonics as selfish is completely arbitrary.”
回应：如果你有足够的钱买健康保险（比冷冻还多），那么你就有足够的钱帮助那些如今需要救济的人。实际上，如果你有足够的钱做任何自由支出（旅游，运动，电影，喝酒），那么你就有足够的钱帮助那些如今需要救济的人。人们一生中以各种方式花费大量钱，除去冷冻的医疗费还有很多钱是自由支出的。

命运号角

modestly
adv. 谨慎地；适当地

命运号角

single out
挑出；挑选

也无风雨

这个有意思。人类已经开始越俎代庖了

jdpan

shakencity

人体冷冻法是假死，戏弄上帝