I want to say, with the most extraordinary prejudice, that the people who talk about such things are probably obnoxious intellectuals with plenty of time and money to spare.
"人類"とか"社会"とか"愛"とか、そんなものは、どうだっていいのです。
‘Humanity’, ‘society’, ‘love’, and so on, don't matter.
逆に、私たちは、自分の課せられたミッションの為に、命をかけたっていいのです。
On the contrary, we are willing to put our lives on the line for our assigned mission.
The novel also features engineers who build transports ‘just’ to get humans out of the solar system and engineers who develop and implement escape plans.
For the past year or so, I have been using clippers and cutting myself vertically, but my wife had ordered me to forbid self-cutting until my eldest daughter's wedding strictly.
I am now operating my PCs with trepidation every day after experiencing multiple PC failures, data loss outbreaks, and access failures of company systems at the beginning of this year's holidays.
But this time, saved by a ‘vague anxiety’ that happened to hit me, I restored the clone and successfully rebooted the system, but I still lost several hours of my time.
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次に人間に生まれる機会があるなら、
If there is a next opportunity to be born human,
『システム障害に対して、文句"だけ"言う立場の人間として生まれたい』
‘I want to be born in a position to complain “only” about system failures.’
と思っています。
I hope so.
私は、もうこれ以上トラブルに向き合うことなく、余生を過し、人生を閉じたいのです。
I want to live the rest of my life and close my life without facing any more troubles.
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このようにシニアは、運命的に、保守的な立場を取るようになり、あらゆる挑戦を回避するようになります。
Thus, seniors are doomed to take a conservative position and avoid all challenges.
そして、自分の挑戦のみならず、人の挑戦にケチをつけるようになります。
And they become stingy not only with their challenges but also with those of others.
これが「老害」です。
This is ‘old age’.
だから言っているでしょう ―― 「本当にやりたいことは、上には黙ってやれ」と。
So I'm telling you -- ‘If you want to do something, do it without telling the top.’