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Compensation

Distinct from the business of Punishment, but
pain a man suffers who is punished is more than
equivalent to any other pleasure which any one other
man can take at seeing it. And Now if this be so in
one case it will probably be so in all. For the that
pleasure will only be in proportion to the strength of the resentment.
If the resentment be weak, the pleasure is
small: if strong, the resentment takes the more
pain to satiate it. If Besides this pain be carried to a higher degree
than the party resenting has an appetite, [+] [+] for, as to excite in him a sentiment of pity, and, if he himself has been the author of it, of remorse,
him the
pleasure it gives him receives an alloy of pain:
which pain may be so great as to receive an alloy of swallow up the
pleasure pleasure.

If there be any case then in which it can be
— 2dly where they are more
worth while to inflict on the mere
for the mere purpose
score of affording a vindictive compensation, it must be when he who
gives occasion to the resentment is but one, and those
who harbour it are many. The pleasure of revenge
in this case however inferior it may be in point
of magnitude to the pain that is necessary to produce it,
derives an increase of value from the circumstances
superior number
of the persons it extends to of extent it occupies in the community. Even in this
case the answer seems to be in the negative, though
the one reasons are not quite so palpable or and obvious
To

Identifier: | JB/100/193/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	100	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	compensation
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
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	32209
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