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Benevolence & its companion beneficence may be with great convenience
divided into negative & positive. The negative or restrictive consists in the avoidance of modes of
annoyance – the positive or instigative in the practice of modes of gratification.
Its branches may be considered under the department of I Words
1. Oral discourse
2. Written do.
I. Actions
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In private Deontology the rule of Benevolence and Beneficence
corresponds bears a certain analogy in some means with the head of Offences termed Negative
Offences in the penal branch of Law.
A negative offence consists in the persons forbearance to prevent
this or that positive offence in the sort of mischief which it is in the
nature of such positive offence to produce.
A transgression of the general rule of negative benevolence
and beneficence consists in the doing acts for acting in such
manner as to produce a in net ballance in the code of evil
in a case where such evil may be produced by a man
without his being thereby to after punishment or
be suffering in any other shape at the hands of the law.
The written But On the other hand, the infraction of the moral rule of negative benevolence
and beneficence is to an act of the positive kind: an infraction of a law
constitutive of a negative offence is an act of the negative kind.
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1. By imputing to the persons spoken to a positive
example of misconduct as manifested on a particular
occasion in question: 2. By giving intimation
of a supposed consciousness of superiority on
the part of the speaker with reference to the person
spoken to.
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