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7 Sept 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch Object
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10. So In every man who, by whether by f misinforma
argumentation by misrepresentation of the natural
consequences, or by erroneous argumentation in any other
shape, or much more if by fear of punishment at the hands of any
one or more of the tutelary sanctions, or physical,
popular or moral, political or religious, is dissuaded
from the reaping of any pleasure an injury is done inflicted
an injury as great or as would be done to him by the
causing him to suffer pain in any shape to an equivalent
amount.
11. Such injury will be susceptible of all those
degrees of delinquency which the of depend being dependent on
the state of the delinquent's mind with reference to the
consequences of the act, [and] are constituted and expressed
by the words attributes con bona fides or absence of evil consciousness, bona fides accompanied
with temerity, and mala fides, or presence of evil
consciousness. At any rate it is not of its nature to be
productive of evil of the second order in any shape.+
+ Add, why.
But state it is not the less an injury: an injury, the
mischievousness of which, and an injury, the gravity of
which in so far depends upon its mischievousness, is
exactly as equal the magnitude of the pleasure from from of which
by the means in question, the person in question has
been debarred.
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]] |
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colonel aaron burr |
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