Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women, n

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问题    Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women, nine times out of ten, are firmly convinced of the superior excellence of their own sex. There is abundant evidence on both sides. If you are a man, you can point out that most poets and men of science are male; If you are a woman, you can retort that so are most criminals. The question is inherently insoluble, but self-esteem conceals this from most people. We are all, whatever part of the world we come from, persuaded that our own nation is superior to all others... The only way I know of dealing with this general human conceit is to remind ourselves that man is a brief episode in the life of a small planet in a little corner of the universe, and that for what we know, other parts of the cosmos may contain beings as superior to ourselves as we are to jelly-fish.

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答案    对那些过分助长自尊的观点,一定要提高警惕。无论男女,十有八九都坚信自己性别的优越,而且双方都有充足的证据。假如你是男人,就会指出大多数诗人和科学家都是男性。假如你是女人,则会驳斥说大多数罪犯也是男性。这个问题从根本上就无法解决,但是由于自尊,大多数人对此视而不见。无论来自世界哪个地方,我们都相信,自己的国家比其他所有国家都优越。……据我所知,对待人类自负这个问题的唯一办法就是提醒我们自己:人类只是宇宙中一个小小角落里,一个小行星上的生命中的一段短暂插曲,并且,就我们所知,宇宙的其他地方可能存在比我们高级的生命,就像我们比水母高级一样。

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