JB/087/054/001

Click Here To Edit

Indirect Legislation

Non-seducing

3. Cases in which the mischievous tendency rewards have
been thought considered to be incitements to mischief, but unjustly

Rewards offerd
to accomplices

In all governments rewards have been employd
more or less for procuring evidence: that of accomplices
not excepted; in which latter case that the punishmen
value of the reward may not be destroy'd by punishment,
it is necessary to superadd a pardon. [There This
In may seem objectionable] To this practise objections have
been made. Between the informer and the person informed
against there have been mutual promises of
adherence: or if no express promise at least a tacit
habit of adherence, which forming a kind of tacit engagement,
which comes to the same thing. Moreover to contribute
to the suffering of any man, much more of a
man you have been wont to live with on terms of friendship
and alliance, is a violation of the dictates of benevolence.
But to violate engagements is immoral; so is
it even when there is no engagement, to violate the dictates
of benevolence. In either way then the a man's character of
is depraved: much more therefore in both. A Reward
thus offer'd is a bounty upon immorality. [And by whom
given? by the sovereign: by him who is the head. legislator, the great guardian of virtue morality
in right virtue of his office. ]

---page break---

Identifier: | JB/087/054/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27579
Box Contents