JB/014/440/001

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In the application of legislation to the purposes of life
the legislator has only the choice of evils. There can be
no government without co-ercion - no coercion without suffering -
& separately considered that coercion must be an evil. The
punitory functions of government consist in the application of that
evil to the individual misdoers, - for the purpose of obtaining
in the interests of the community an exemption from
greater evils - or a production of pleasures of greater value
than the sufferings created by its coercive interposition

It is thus that the greatest happiness
principle brings the legislator into the field of particular
pains & pleasures - and the first emanation of that principle
is the disappointment-prevention - or as Mr Bentham
more habitually called it the non-disappointment principle
Upon this the laws of property have their sole foundation -
for if no disappointment were felt, - no pains suffered from
the loss of property , no demand would there be for
penal visitation for the violation of what are called the
rights of property. Let disappointment as far as
possible be prevented. Why prevented? Because
disappointment cannot have place without pain.
Inseparably connected with the idea of disappointment
is that of expectation - of agreeable expectation - The
disappointment prevents the expectation from being
realized - The legislator's business is to protect the
subject from the sufferings of that disappointment.

Identifier: | JB/014/440/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	440	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f27
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5203
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