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The belief in reason that's being promoted today rests on a number of childishly simple ideas. One of the commonest is that history's crimes are mistakes that can be avoided in future as we acquire greater knowledge. But humanely evil isn't a type of error that've been discarded like an obsolete scientific theory.

今天提倡的信仰理性基于很多幼稚简单的想法。其中最常见的是人可通过习得知识来避免历史罪行重演。然而，人的罪恶不像过时的科学理论，说抛弃就可以抛弃。