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The rules of extra-regarding prudence though simple in their claims
dictate different forms of operation with reference to the different
situations in which a man may be placed with respect to others. The law
is in all cases the same and the inquiry resolves itself into the means of
giving that law the greatest efficiency. In the different various grades of social
position various rules apply. The general reasoning is grounded on the average
of those grades. But it well to point out some of those
diversities of position which demand the attention of the Deontological student.

The cases presenting themselves where no conflict of interest has
place will be of the easiest decision. On those occasions where to do that
which is most agreeable to others is to do that which is most agreeable to
yourself – & where to do that which is most agreeable to yourself is at the
same time to ingratiate yourself with others, the task of exertion is easy.
In so far as without sacrifice of prudence on the one hand, – or of benevolence
on the other you can make your own wishes can be made to accord with the wishes of
others – your own interests with those their interests – you will advance
the cause of virtue & consequent felicity.

But the points of difficulty will be when conflicting, – or
still worse, irreconcilable interests meet – where the conduct which would be
satisfactory to yourself, would be is repelled by others as the cause of annoyance vexation &
pain to them. It might be a great enjoyment to a man to smoke & in notwithstanding
the annoyance others by caused to others by involving others them in the fumes of his Tobacco. Setting aside the question
of as to what benevolence would might prompt – would not extra-regarding prudence
demand from him the sacrifice of his enjoyment, – for the sole purpose
of protecting himself from the re-action upon himself upon his own comforts of the ill will of
those he had annoyed? He might consider that
the quantity of pleasure which the smoking communicated would be far less
in amount than the pleasures he would lose by losing other men's good
opinion – or in comparison of the pains which other men would have
it in their power & perhaps in their disposition to inflict.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	448	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f133
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5664
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