JB/159/114/004

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Measure

profit of the crime is at the greatest, and the apparent
value of the punishment (probability
& proximity being taken into the account is great [at the]
least. The business is to order matters that
at no time shall any man see reason to think
it worth his while to committ be guilty of any offence, however
distant and however improbable the event
of his being overtaken by the punishment may
appear to him. Now the more improbable (for the
consideration of remoteness as being comparatively
inconsiderable we will let pass) the more improbable
I say such event appears to him; the
less will (he deem) the present value of the punishment appear
to be in his eyes. And the more sanguine and confident
he is in his temper, the less will less probable will
such event appear to him. On the other hand
too the more impervious vehement the desire is which the
profit of the crime is designed to gratify, the less
able he is to attend to the danger of the punishment:
and this vehemence is different in different
persons and in the same form person at different
times occasions, than although the real eventual profit
be the same. Also where money is the source instrument of
profit [(or as in this case we must call if of pleasure)]
the same quantity of money may at one
time be be of more profit to him than at another.
At one time a guinea may be nothing to him; at
another

Identifier: | JB/159/114/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	measure of punishment
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53937
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