This would be quite different if the identities of future victims were known at the time such decisions are taken. Imagine that they were known, and that the individual victims of policy decisions would somehow stare into the faces of decision makers just as if they were being held at gunpoint.
如果决策时就能够了解未来牺牲者的身份，情况就会大大的不同。假如他们能未卜先知，政治决策中的个体牺牲者就会对决策者们怒目而视，就像自己时时刻刻都受到枪口的威胁。如果这样，我敢断定决策过程会嘎然而止。