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Difference between real punishment and apparent.
There are two different conjunctions at which punishment
takes may make its appearance show itself to a bystander:
that of his reading the description of it as given
in the Laws; and that of his seeing it actually
inflicted at the time of execution. Punishment
as in the shape it appears to him at the first of
these conjunctions may be stiled the punishment
that is apparent upon the fact of the description
in the shape it appears to him upon the latter
of these conjunctions, it may be stiled the punishment
that is apparent upon the face of the
execution.
As both These shapes of apparent punishment
may as they may both differ considerably from the real punishment
so may they from each other. From these differences
many important consequences of importance
to practise will in due time herein after be deduced.
There are therefore two ways in which punishment
may be shown to him: in which the idea and apprehension of punishment
may be excited in his mind. By
The ad letting him read of it as it is described
and by letting him see it as it is actually inflicted.
Shown to him in these two different manners it
may appear to him in two several shapes: both
different from each one of them from the other, as well as both of them
from the real.
It is the idea of Punishment pain that produces the
effects for the sake of which punishment is inflicted
and denounced. It is not punishment pain itself: or (as it
may
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jeremy bentham |
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