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Capital Punishment examined

desirable [event] [desirable] upon the whole Being then
in his power, he will produce it.

The conclusion however is not necessary. There are
several reasons why [it requires a much stronger
impulse to dispose a means] the same impulse which
is strong enough to dispose a man to meet
Death at the hands of Justice should not be
strong enough to dispose him to bring to on himself
that event with his own hand.

In the first place the infliction of it as a punishment
is an event by no means certain. It is sinister of in itself uncertain, and the passion he is supposed
to be influenced by withdrawing his attention
from the chances that are in favour of its happening
makes it look still more uncertain.

In the next place supposing it although it were certain it is at
any rate distant: and the mortification he undergoes at from the not possessing of the object of his passion
is present.

Thirdly the approach of Death is much more
tenable, Death is attended with much more pain
when a pe man inflicts has to inflict it on himself with his
own hand, than when he barely all he does is simply to put
himself in a situation in which it will be inflicted
on him by the hands of another or by some the
physical want. operation of some physical cause. To put himself in such such
a situation requires but a single and sudden
volition, and perhaps but a single act in consequence
during

Identifier: | JB/141/091/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	capital punishment examined
Image	002	Titles	equability
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8 / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48308
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