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CRIT. JUR. CRIM.

is th in any case to be applied, it is not for
the sake of vengeance. It is not because the person
who would apply the punishment is angry, with or
because any other person is angry with the act
to which he would apply it. It is only because
the act is mischievous: that is of a nature to produce
certain assignable pains or prevent the
production of certain assignable pleasures.

This is an direct immediate and indisputable
consequence from the principle of utility. To
deny it is to disclaim the authority of that
principle, to abandon reason and argument and to give the runs to caprice,
self-sufficiency and despotism.

The prevention of mischief once not vengeance is the
end, the only justifiable end of Punishment. There are few men I take it, perhaps none
except what may be passed by their attachment in the study
of a to some particular system of morals, who would not at the
first general mention of such a proposition, would before it
were applied to particulars, (would not) be disposed
to accede to it without reserve. At the same time
there are few, I doubt, very few, who at least
for a long time will possess resolution and consistency
(strength of mind) to adhere to it invariably.

Many are the acts which every a man, almost
every man is in use to hate without being able
to tell why: and which he would have punished
only because he hates them. (If he ceases) Ceasing to wish
to them punished he must reform (a large mass
of) his opinions and own himself wrong in many
of those propensities on which he has been most accustomed
perhaps to value himself.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	269	Info in main headings field	crit. jur. crim
Image	002	Titles	exemptions / gen / punishment - end
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d153 / d154 / d155 / d156
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54092
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