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Forfeiture of Reputation.

who has undergone a degradation of rank is thereby commonly
rendered worse upon the whole than if he had never
been possessed of it: because in general simply not
to possess is not so bad as having possessed to lose.
To speak with more precision it should seem that the
characteristic pain of the moral sanction produced by
such a punishment is in general more than equivalent
to the sum of such casual benefits of that
sanction as the punishment fails to take away.

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Forfeiture of
reputation how
measured – it
cannot be extra
Scale of Infamy.

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It is common enough to speak of a total loss of
reputation; and some Jurists speak of such a loss as
if it could easily be, and were frequently incurred.a But
such a notion is not compatible with any precise idea
of the import of that term? To understand this it will
be necessary to conceive in idea, a certain average or
mean quantity of reputation equal to 0 Zero, from whence
degrees of good reputation may be reckoned on one side the plus side
and of had reputation on the other minus side. This means quantity
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	24-25
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	forfeiture of reputation
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48329
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