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4 Compensation.
may appear from the following considerations: If the
resentment be not fully satisfied, the pain of it remains
in part uneased. If it be more than satisfied, a sentiment
of compassion and [+]perhaps remorse ensues which produces another
[+](if the party entertaining the resentment has been the author of the suffering) of
kind of pain. Even if it be just satisfied and
no more the whole mischief has not yet received a remedy. is not yet cured. There
remains A sentiment of concern for the damage
still remains: such a sort of sentiment as would
have taken the place had the damage, instead of resulting
from the act of a sentient being, resulted
All it does is to put an end to
from a mere physical calamity.
Where there is no damage received, as in case
Whether that of
antipathy can
of a mere antipathy, the vindictive compensation seems to have
a better chance of being adequate.
The case of sympathetic resentment seems to be
Whether that of sympathetic resentment can
of a middle nature between the two others. other two. In some
instances the concern for the damage merely as a
damage may be little less than what would
be felt if were it a the man's own. In others that
concern may be but trifling and the sentiment
of resentment which is that which the punishment will put
an end to, may predominate, so as almost to swallow
up the other.
Be this as it may it should seem that it
Whether a vindictive
compenation
can be worth the purchase
1st where the parties
to receive it are not
more than the parties
to yield it.
can never be worth while to inflict punishment
merely in the view of affording a vindictive compensation.
If we Let us take any case whatsoever, the first that happens
to occur to us, we shall probably be of opinion that the
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