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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.


Identifier: | JB/141/120/002
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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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