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Of the Lex Talionis
do to do hurt to an individual, therefore so would it
for the Legislator Law. He seems not to have considered
[at that moment] that the Law can to punish
in any way is to do hurt. The other instances he gives are
those of Theft, Defamation, Forgery and Adultery.
He says that Theft cannot be punished with by Theft
Defamation by Defamation and so on. His reason
His notion is then that Theft for instance to be punished by according to the
rule of retaliation must be punished by Theft. But
that it should be is not necessary according to that
rule stated as he himself has states it in the next sentence:⊞ ⊞ For the criminal in that case to suffer the same "hurt" he has done to the party
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jeremy bentham |
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