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Indirect Legislation

Non Seduction § 6

1. Avoiding to administer incentives to delinquency

If it be the business of the government to avoid
admin suppress extinguish prevent mischief, of course is it will it be
to avoid producing it. This in the way of information An observation this, which in
the way of information would be idle: but which as a
memento may have its use. Men require to be reminded
much oftener than to be informed. When I say that evil mischief
ought not to be produced
I mean
of course on any other terms than that of bringinginproducing along with it
a good, or driving out a mischief, which is of greater value:
See Princ. of legisl. Introd.
Ch. [Value]
for in the dealings of government [good is not purchased
but at the expense of evil] no good is not obtainedto
be had but at a price. Government acts by punishment: government is itself coercion: to govern is to do
evil that good may come.

It seems insipid enough to say, that government
ought not to give rewards for crimes: that it
ought not to give rewards for any thing that is immoral: that
it ought not to give rewards for any thing that tends to
weaken the force of the moral sanction: that it ought not
to give for any thing that tends to misdirect the force
of the religious sanction, or to weaken it in cases where
the direction of it given to it it takes is right. Ex In cases where any
such tendency of these tendencies is manifest, to give examples would be
idle. But the in cases where such tendency if real
is apt to lie concealed unobvious or disputable, examples
may be of use.

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