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Logic or Ethics Ethics
Ch. Moralistic Entities

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Applied Confined to private life concerns the only mischief to of which the
use of these appellations is liable to lead be productive, is the danger to
life by the practice called duelling: and, in this instance,
though the good (viz. the repression of offensers deportment)
is no more than what is capable of being produced by other and less expensive
means, yet some good there is to set in the balance against the
mischief.

Applied to national and international concerns, they
operate as incentives to misrule in the shape of usurpation
of power, and or to worse — i.e to murder, rape, rapine robbery depredation and destruction
upon the largest scale.

One element upon which The magnitude of the mischief depends is consequently
the quantity of power attached belonging to the situation of
him by whom the notions thus disseminated are imbibed:
[for abuse of power or to speak state more largely abuse of influence, is the immediate source of the
mischief which it is their tendency to produce].

1. First, suppose the situation that of the sovereign.
The field of his field action will be either national or international.
In so far as it is his own subjects are the
persons in his dealings with whom, and at the whose expence
of whom, these possessions — this honour, glory, fame, renown,
increase of dignity, are to be acquired, the mischief to the
production of which the language in question leads is — invasion
of popular rights, and thus oppression, and in case of non-resistance
oppression and misrule, in case of resistance, civil war.

In so far as the rulers and subjects of any foreign state are the
persons in his dealings with whom and at the expence of whom
these same possessions are to be acquired, the mischief is that
of war at large alias foreign war: which being interpreted is
murder , rape, depredation and destruction carried on upon
the largest scale, at the expence as well of his own subjects as of the ruler and subjects of the
foreign state.

Identifier: | JB/014/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-10-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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