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lawfulness of tyrannicide fulfilled its object.
It serves but to aggravate the suspicions of
a tyr the tyrant and render the more precious
in proportion to his

3. Medical practice. This ground of justification
is comprized in the preceding. A man is made
to suffer for his own advantage. If a man is
seized with an apoplexy, would you wait his
consent to bleed him? A doubt never presents
itself as to the propriety of applying this remedy making use of the proper means to save his life since it may be taken for granted that there
is here in in this case there is no desire of death.

The case is very would be very different if a
man in the full possession of his faculties, and
with the power of giving his consent should refuse
it. Would you give to his friends or his physicians
the right to compel to submit to an operation
that he declines. This would be to substitute
If so an certain evil yy a certain wld thus be substituted employed to created to aver to a danger that is scarcely
more than imaginary. Distrust and terror
would be the constant attendants upon the
sick bed. If Should a physician example however
subject his patient to any hazardous experiment
and the result fail of answering his experiment expectations
the law must necessarily take its course, and
the intention can only seriously extenuate his temerity.

4. Self-defence. This is again a modification of
the second head of justification. The object here
is to avoid a greater mischief, for though in the
act of self the consequence of self defence may
be the destruction in the act of self defence, you
put to death ten murderers, their death is a
benefit to society, suppos at least if capital
punishment be considered as a proper mode of
punishment, while the loss death of a triple an innocent
person is a loss. The allowing of self-defence is
absolutely necessary. The vigilance of judicial
the judicial power does not super however great,
does not supersede can never supply the vigilance
of individuals for their own security. The
of the laws will never operate a strong

Identifier: | JB/047/056/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1804-04-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	056	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	002	Titles	ch. 3 physical means in general
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14924
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