JB/067/046/002

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C
Of Unlawful Defamation.

partly because those which are alike detrimental
in all are not equally understood to be so: partly because
this standard for judging of the immorality or merit of an
Act or propensity is not equally conformed to in all communities.(a)

Note.

(a) It may be of pernicious consequences to a Turk or other Mahometan
to say of him that he has drunk wine: it can be of
no such consequence to say the same thing of a Christian. For
among the Turks it is looked upon as immoral for a man to
drink wine, that practice being forbidden by their religion:
among Christians not being forbidden by their religion it is
not looked upon as immoral. The habit of Drunkenness is
of pernicious consequence every where; so is the practice of
inflicting unnecessary pain on those whom the chance of
war has put into our power. Accordingly for a man to have
it said of him that he is a drunkard or that he has tortured
a prisoner taken in war would commonly be of pernicious
consequence to him in any of the civilized countries
of Europe. It would however not be of any such consequence
among the Savages of North America. For although among
those

Identifier: | JB/067/046/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15-17, 17a
Box	067	Main Headings	liberty of the press
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	of unlawful defamation
Image	002	Titles	reasons / note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	21879
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