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7 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

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[If what is above be just and true] Whatsoever be the
12 The means employed, and the material circumstances
in which they are employed being in both cases the same,
the injury done to a person by the causing him to fal
fail of reaping this or that pleasure which he would
otherwise have reaped is exactly equal to the injury
that would be done to him by the causing him to suffer
this or that pain, which he would otherwise not have
suffered.

13. The matter of wealth is not otherwise of any
value, value, nor can the subtraction of it from any person be productive of injury, nor for the punishment punishing of him who without right
obtains it for himself is there can there be any sufficient reason, any otherwise
than in as so far as the general effect of it is to serve
for the obtainment attainment of pleasure or for the avoidance of
pain.

14 In respect of any erroneous reasoning, the having
for its effect or tendency the causing a person to debar
himself from innoxious pleasure, as above, to any amount,
or in any shape and to any amount, there can not be
any sufficient reason for annexing punishment to the
act of uttering giving utterance to such erroneous reason: [why?] — because
if any reason be e reasoning be erroneous, it is only
by correct reasoning, and not by punishment, or fear of
punishment, that the erroneousness of it can be proved and
exposed. It is only in proportion as an opinion is
erroneous, that he whose opinion it is or is pretended to be by whom it is espoused or pretended to be espoused
can have any need of p employing punishment for the support
of it. Nor, in proof for proving that the opinion in
question not only is erroneous but by the person in question
is believed to be so, can there be any more conclusive presump presumption
-tive
-tive evidence, than
the act of his employing
or contributing or seeking
to employ evidence
punishment in support
of it.

Identifier: | JB/014/052/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	052	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4815
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