You can only find the answers by research and development.

你只能通過研究和發展找到答案

You can't find the answers

你不能依靠

by putting people of high moral character in government.

推舉德高望重的人進入政府找到答案

You can only find the answers by innovation

你只能在創新中找到答案

by studying the systems and the problems and working on methods

通過探究系統和問題 並致力於找到

of alleviating those problems, not through law.

減輕這些問題的辦法 而不是通過法律

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem.

當你無能解決問題時 你才只會用法律

If people steal or hurt one another

如果有人去偷竊或傷害其他人

you say "It's against the law to hurt somebody."

你說:"傷害他人是違法的"

If a person doesn't have the means to live by

如果一個人沒有生存下去的方法

he's going to hurt somebody to get the money or whatever they need.

他就會去傷害他人 來得到金錢或他想要的東西

That isn't dealing with the problem. 'Law' is really avoiding problems;

這樣並不能處理好問題 "法律"確實只是在迴避問題

it's just nailing a proclamation on the wall

它只是把一份聲明釘在牆上

saying "You! Don't do this."

寫著:"你! 不可以這樣做"

It doesn't work in the long run.

長遠而言是不會奏效的

You might cause people to consider an action before they take it

法律也許會讓人在行動前考慮一下

but all laws come into existence because of scarcity.

但所有的法律存在 都是因為匱乏

It's always difficult to imagine that.

這一直是人們難以想像的答案

When there's scarcity of water, people will steal it, remove it

當水很匱乏時 人們會偷竊水 拿走它

if not for themselves, for their children.

若不是為了他們自己 就是為了孩子

[You can have] all laws in the world

[你可以有]世界上所有的法律

but if you don't want people to steal water, you build an electric fence

但如果你不想人們偷水 你乾脆在水的周圍建一道

around the water.

電防柵欄

You don't need to put up a sign 'Don't Steal Water!'

你不必豎起一塊"不許偷水!"的牌子

but those people will die, so we don't want to do that.

但那些人會因此渴死 所以我們不想這樣

We don't want to build a fence around our country and say

我們不想在國家周圍建起這樣的柵欄 並寫上:

"This is the greatest country in the world. We're gonna keep it that way!"

"這是世界上最偉大的國家 我們要一直這樣維持下去!"

We depend on other countries. If we live to ourselves

我們需要依賴其他國家 如果我們只靠自己生活

I can assure you, we'll die of ourselves

我可以向你保證 我們一定會滅亡

because if the Russians do nuclear testing

因為如果俄羅斯進行核子試驗

and they dump radioactive stuff into the sea, or the Japanese

並將放射性物質滲入海裡 或者日本人也這樣做

the world is one big place and the air moves around

世界是個很大的地方 空氣到處流通

and the waters move. Therefore living to yourself

而水也是 因此只靠自己

your little isolated colony

生活在狹小孤立的聚落

your little culture that you want to build

即你所希望建立的小文化

your little city that you want to build

你所希望建立的小城市

of people with like-mindedness

由想法近似的人組成

all of that has no basis for survival

但這一切都缺乏生存基礎

because in the event of catastrophic failure

因為當毀滅性的災難降臨時

you will be invaded by the minorities

你將被長久受欺壓的少數人入侵

if they don't have food, water or the wherewithal to live.

如果他們沒有食物 水或必要的生存所需