想象力的道德中立性

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They can think themselves 他们能够设身处地地思考

into other people's places. 为他人着想。

Of course, this is a power like my brand of fictional magic 当然，这是一种力量，就像我所创造的虚构魔法一样

that is morally neutral. 这种力量在道德上是中立的。

One might use such an ability to manipulate 人们可能会利用这种能力去操纵

or control 或控制

just as much as to understand 就像利用它去理解一样

or sympathise. 或同情。

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. 而且许多人根本不愿意运用他们的想象力。

They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, 他们选择安逸地待在自己经验的范围内，

never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other 从不费心去想，如果他们生来与众不同

than they are. 会有怎样的感受。

They can refuse to hear screams 他们可以拒绝听到尖叫声

or peer inside cages. 或拒绝窥视笼子里面。

They can close their minds 他们可以封闭自己的思想

and hearts to any suffering 和心灵，对任何痛苦置之不理

that does not touch them personally. 只要这种痛苦不亲自触及他们。

They can refuse to know. 他们可以拒绝去了解。

I might be tempted to envy people 我可能会忍不住羡慕那些人

who can live that way, 能够那样生活的人，

except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I 除了我不认为他们的噩梦会比我少

do. 多少。

Choosing to live in narrow spaces 选择生活在狭隘的空间里

leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, 会导致一种精神上的广场恐惧症，

and that brings its own terrors. 而这会带来它自己的恐惧。

I think the willfully unimaginative 我认为那些故意缺乏想象力的人

see more monsters. 会看到更多的怪物。

They are often more afraid. 他们往往更害怕。

What is more, 更重要的是，

those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters, 那些选择不去同情的人，实际上是在助长真正的怪物，

for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, 因为我们自己从未直接犯下邪恶的行为，

we collude with it 但我们却与它同谋

through our own apathy. 通过我们自己的冷漠。