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Pecuniary Forfeitures

3. In respect of Equality it is not less advantageous.
No punishment can be made to sit more equally than
this can be made to sit on different individuals;
so that as the quantum of it be [made be] proportioned
to the fortunes of the patient delinquent means which the delinquent
has of bearing it. For money,⊞ ⊞ (that is, the ratio of a given sum of money to the total sum of a man's capital) may we have
already shewn to be the most accurate indic measure of
the quantity of pain or pleasure a man can
be made to receive that can be. The kind of pleasures which
a man two men will be deprived of, by being made to lose each
a tenth given part (suppose a tenth) of their respective fortunes,
will in specie perhaps be very different; but this does
not hinder but that in quantity taking into the account quantity⊞ ⊞ of on the one hand, & actual expectations (burthens and chance of burthens probable & probable burthens on the other hand be taken into the account of fortune, they may be the same:
they will be the same as nearly as any two quantities
can be made to be so by any rule of measuring method of operation. Each man
It is from his money that a man derives the
main main part of his pleasures; the only part that lies
open to estimation. The* supposition we arc forced to
follow is, that the the quantities of pleasure each man are men are
capable of purchasing with the stage their respective capitals are respectively equal. This
supposition is, it must be confessed very loose indeed and inaccurate, because the quantity of a
man's capital is subject to infinite fluctuations, and
because there is great reason to suppose that
the richer add a sicker richer man is apt to be happier
for the most part upon an average than a poorer man. It is however
after all the [the nearest nearer] nearer to the truth [if] any than any other general suppositions
which that for the purpose in question can be made.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	120	Info in main headings field	pecuniary forfeitures
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 / f7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48337
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