【正文】 f what we should do.
　　作為后啟蒙時期的生物，我們總是設想科學思維可以解決世界上一切重要的問題，但價值觀的世界不同于科學的世界。t. We shouldnamp。
　　As postEnlightenment creatures, we tend to assume that scientific thinking holds the key to everything of importance in our world, but the world of value is different from the world of science. The stuff of the one world can be quantified by real numbers. The stuff of the other world canamp。 而且在兩個數(shù)字間的比較中只有三種可能。1,2,3……。
　　The weight of one is greater, lesser or equal to the weight of the other. Properties like weight can be represented by real numbers one, two, three and so on and there are only three possible parisons between any two real numbers. One number is greater, lesser, or equal to the so with values.
　　其中一個的重量大于、小于 或等于另一個。試想一個與價值觀毫不相關的比較，例如兩個行李箱中哪個更重。
　　I think the puzzle arises because of an unreflective assumption we make about value. We unwittingly assume that values like justice, beauty, kindness, are akin to scientific quantities, like length, mass and weight. Take any parative question not involving value, such as which of two suitcases is heavier. There are only three possibilities.
　　我認為疑惑產(chǎn)生的原因源于一種我們對價值的草率設想。我們說到底是在衡量兩份工作的利弊，不是對比數(shù)字9和 一盤煎雞蛋的好處。但這也不對啊。究竟該怎么選擇呢? 貌似有些事情出錯了。re weighing the merits of two jobs, after all, not the merits of the number nine and a plate of fried eggs. A parison of the overall merits of two jobs is something we can make, and one we often do make.
　　那么現(xiàn)在我們就有一個疑惑了。t be pared. Weamp。re trying to choose between two things that canamp。s not like weamp。t be right. Itamp。ve got two jobs. Neither is better than the other, nor are they equally how are we supposed to choose? Something seems to have gone wrong here. Maybe the choice itself is problematic, and parison is impossible. But that canamp。ve got a puzzle. Weamp。
　　So now weamp。如果兩件事一開始都同等的好 ，當你改進了其中一件，那它就一定會優(yōu)于另一個。39。39。更高的薪酬讓銀行家的工作優(yōu)于以前，但額外薪水不一定足夠讓成為銀行家變得比成為藝術家好。假設一間銀行嘗試討好你，在你的月薪里增加500美元。你可以想象任何兩種你喜歡的職業(yè)，但兩者都不會比另一方好的。s career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of pictorial expression. Maybe the banking career puts you on the cutting edge of new forms of financial manipulation.
　　也許藝術家這個職業(yè)能讓你接觸最前沿的圖像表達技術。
　　Maybe the artistamp。 假設你要在兩份工作中挑選： 你可以做投資銀行家，或做平面設計師。39。39。如果選項都一樣好，那還不如直接拋硬幣算了，這樣就會產(chǎn)生思想誤區(qū)，讓你認為自己選擇事業(yè)、住處、婚嫁時都拋硬幣選擇就好了。所以面對艱難抉擇，可能正確的思維方式，就是認為選項雙方一樣好。39。39。39。39。39。難的原因在于沒有最優(yōu)選項。就算你完全了解了兩種選項并將其一一對照，你仍然很難決定。39。t know which, we might as well take the least risky option. Even taking two alternatives side by side with full information, a choice can still be hard. Hard choices are hard not because of us or our ignorance。re too stupid to know which, and since we donamp。s a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but weamp。
　　Itamp。39?？珊髞砦野l(fā)現(xiàn)，當律師不大適合我，這不是真正的我。t who I was.
　　但我沒有收到這種DVD，而且由于我實在想不出哪一種更優(yōu)，我就和大多數(shù)人一樣：選擇了最安全的一項。t quite fit. It wasnamp。t figure out which was better, I did what many of us do in hard choices: I took the safest option. Fear of being an unemployed philosopher led me to bee a lawyer, and as I discovered, lawyering didnamp。
　　But I got no DVD, and because I couldnamp。如果上帝或者網(wǎng)飛公司能送我一張DVD來向我描述這兩種充滿可能性的職業(yè)生涯，那我就能做出選擇了。d see that one was better, and the choice would be easy.
　　所以我拿出自己