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Punishment
Ins. Religion
punishment of Death on any man for
example: Why? because never gave
her consent to the Law which inflicts that
punishment for the offence in question. If this
be a reason, for the same reason it is not lawful
to inflict on him any other punishment.
If it be immaterial whether a man consented did or did not consent
to the establishment of the punishment in question, still more
immaterial must it be if possible whether he
in⊞ ⊞ if in point of fact he did give such consent, it was right, it was lawful as the phrase is it was lawful allowable for him to have given give it.
Because his intended and very justly that Those
however who hold precede to be unlawful unallowable must
I think as Beccaria intimates† † §.16. French edit. hold the
negative.
How many and what other I know of no other modes of punishment may in
be particular that have been objected to on the score of Religion. It is How
impossible to say and many and what punishments
might be objected to on that score,
it is impossible for me or I think for any one to say to say. Religious notions,
when not regulated by utility, having
nothing to do with reason, be not within the grasp
of reason. [It is as impossible for any one Reason is as unable to explore as to explode
them to explore them a priori by the help means of reason
as to explode them.] Thus much we may
venture to say of them in the lump, that they
be they what they may they can deserve no regard
and
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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