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In the application of evil for the production of good never
let it be applied for the gratification of mere antipathy; – never but
as subservient to & necessary for the only proper ends of punishment –
the determent of others by example, – the determent of the offender
by suffering. In the interest of the offender reformation is
the great object to be aimed at – if this cannot be accomplished
seek to disable him from inflicting the like evil on himself or others.
But always bear in mind the maxim which cannot be repeated
too often. Inflict as much pain – & no more as pain than is necessary
to accomplish the purpose of benevolence. Create not evil greater
than the evil you excluded.

When it is settled in a man's mind that such or
such another is a bad man, and this from an effect
apt to be produced by such judgment is a settled affection of
antipathy , of antipathy more or less strong according to the
temper of the individual. Thereupon without troubling himself to
measure out with any thing like correctness the proper quantity of punishment which in quality
of Judges and executive officers of the tribunal of the popular
make it would be proper for him according to the above
rules, to administer upon every occasion opportunity that presents the means
of expressing as towards him the affection of hatred and contempt
he accordingly employs it: and in so doing he prides piques himself
upon the evidence he affords to others of his hatred of vice and love of
virtue: while in truth he is only affording a gratification to his own
dissocial and self-regarding affections – to his own antipathy, and his own
pride.
The

Quantity equal in both cases; The happiness of the worst man of the species forms an is as much
an integrant part of the whole mass of human happiness as is
as large a part of the happiness of which there are that
of the best man.

On every occasion in which evil is not done to a man delinquent does not afford
an adequate promise of future good greater good, to the delinquent
himself or others, so far from doing evil to him,
benefi the law of benevolence and benevolence enjoins him us to do
as much good to him as is consistent in other respects
with the ofbeneficence and extra-regarding prudence.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	553	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f239
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5769
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