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1821. March 3.d
Deontology private.

Negative beneficence
annoyance corporeal

Of the five senses, the feeling and the taste do not, on
this occasion, come in question: annoyance to either of these
senses presents itself in the from of a legally punishable offence:
annoyance to the touch or feeling, presents the idea becomes
of what, in law language, is called assault: annoyance to
the taste presents the idea of poison; and, unless deceit or
threats intimidation be employed as the instrument of it, can not but involve
in it an offence of the nature of assault.

In a word, the only senses exposed to what on this,
occasion, is meant by The annoyances, are the three senses which come under Deontological cognizance which
are capable of being operated upon without any such operation
in consequence of which immediate contact is generally regarded as
having place. These are the smell, the hearing, and the sight.

1. The smell. The ways in which annoyance may be
inflicted on this sense are, for the most part, sufficiently
obvious. Under this head, some cautions there are which
may not be altogether without their use.

Trifling as they may seem at first sight, in regard of to all
these modes of annoyance which operate through the senses,
such may be the effect to banish one friend from the Society
of another, and even render a man an object of recorded
aversions to a whole company in any degree numerous.
Trifing as it may seem, what renders the mischief in this case
the more serious, is that, by a sort of mixture of shame, fear
and sympathy, the person by whom the annoyance is felt is
apt to be restrained from making communication of his feelings
to the person who is the author of it. Here, then, is the case
of an act which, having the effect of maleficence, is forbidden
stands clearly prohibited by the dictates of negative beneficence,
and thereby thence of self regarding prudence. Trifling as it may
seem in the extreme, greater annoyance id produced by it than
would be produced by many punishable offence, at the same
time that, by the circumstance just mentioned, the injury, such
as it is, stands precluded from the benefit of pardon

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Date_1	1821-03-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	523	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / f208
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5739
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