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Deontology 16
Foundation of 16 Extraregarding
30.
An act which in its earliest or it most obvious
effects is beneficial may when the whole of its effects
are taken together bye upon the balance pernicious. An
act which in its earliest or most obvious effects is
pernicious may upon the balance be beneficial. In
either of these cases, an act or a judgment produced
by a sympathy excited by the contemplation of the earliest
or most obvious effects of the act first mentd.
may be purely pernicious: and so in the case of
an act or judgment produced by an antipathy excited
by an act of the sort mentioned in the second place.
In so far as by an assemblage of sympathies or
antipathies, or both which as above had become as above pernicious
a judgment or dictate of the popular or
moral sanction has been produced tho that judgment
or dictate will be pernicious; and will
accordingly been thereby at variance with the principle
of general utility
31.
Quere — Whether to proceed to find
examples of the abb of sympathy
& antipathy and thence
of the popular sanction from
the standard of utility; then proceed
to shew how all that can be
done by deontology is to bring to view
the latent dictates of the several
springs of action as above
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