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1) Punishment why more practised than Reward.

Public burthens are one of the expences which the
state is obliged to be at in order to maintain itself:
Punishment is the other. Leaving burthens
out of the question, if obedience could be produced
in every instance by Rewards instead of Punishment,
the business of Government could be the end of Punishment could be attained,
the internal business of Government could be conducted,
without Punishment, that is without expence.
Reward is good. Punishment is evil. The good
produced by obedience being in both cases the same,
it is that to this latter good in the first place add the what good
there is in Reward: in the next place substract
what evil there is in Punishment. It is most
manifest that the sum in the first case is a
greater quantity than the difference in the second.
To prefer punishment where the end can be equally
compassed by Reward, is to prefer the lesser good
to the greater. [a]


But it is not true that obedience can be produced
in every few instance by Reward: as well as by
Punishment: very few in comparison are the instances in which
it can. The reasons are obvious and perfectly
conclusive. 1st Reward in most cases not in its
nature so efficacious; 2dly were it efficacious it is not to be had.



Identifier: | JB/100/096/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

100

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

096

Info in main headings field

punishment why more practised than reward

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1 / / / e4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

32112

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