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Punishment distinguished and defined
Punishment distinguished
from
other kindred objects
in point of
intentionality.
In the case of self-preservation, and self-pres defence, the
evil may either be directly intentional or only obliquely
intentional: if however it is directly intentional, it
is inflicted in the way of punishment: at any rate it
is inflicted on for the purpose of restraint, which is one
of the purposes of punishment.
In the case of safe-custody, it may also be either
directly or only obliquely intentional: if however
it is directly intentional it is only for the
purpose of restraint. But this is rarely the case;
in general what evil it produced by measures
of safe-custody, is generally only obliquely and negatively intentional,
and is gener the effect of indolence on the
part of those under whose direction it is administer'd.
When it is directly intentional, the most
common case is for it to be ultimately intentional
and to be directed to the purpose of inflicted for the purpose of gratifying
antipathy.
In the cases of combination, of a personal obligation or a tax, as such it
is never any more than obliquely intentional.
The
In the case of restraint and in that of compulsion
the painor evilthat is produced is sometimes is all
of it only no more than obliquely intentional, sometimes it is in part
of it is directly intentional, and then it is of the
nature of punishment.
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