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1810
Prizes
Add to the 3 Rules a 4th for comparing those four modes of warfare.
Reward – how far applicable to 1. capture. 2. destruction. 3. endamagement – blockade –
Capture, destruction, endamagement, blockading blockade – in
these may be seen so many distinguishable ways modes
of annoyance: so many distinguishable ways in which the enemy may be made to suffer
in his fate respect of his means of hostility – mere
money and money's worth included.
In the case of capture, destruction, and endamagement
the disablement mischief mischief whatsoever may be the
amount of it is perpetual: in the case of blockade
it is supposing no ulterior mischief to result in any one of
the three other shapes, it is but temporary, lasting no
longer than the blockade lasts, unless by in so far as the detention, a
plan of mischief meditated by the enemy is finally defeated.
The valu amount or value of it being given
say £10,000 in money paid down upon the rail – say £100,000
paid down in like manner, in whatsoever of the above
shapes the mischief to the enemy happens to have
manifested itself, the value of the service done is the
same, the reward therefore, from all sources taken
together, ought sitting under all differences in the
degree of hardship attached to the particular form
of the service ought to be the same.
But In case of capture, the value of the articles captured
being given, the service done is worth twice as
much, as in the case of destruction.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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