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B. 1 Ch.10

III. Cases where punishment is unprofitable.

If the evil of the punishment exceed the evil of the offence, the punishment will be unprofitable. The legislator will have produced more suffering than he has prevented. He will have purchased exemption from one evil at the expense of a greater.

The evil resulting from punishment divides itself into four branches:—1. The evil of coercion or restraint, or the pain which it gives a man not to be able to do the act, whatever it be, which by the apprehension of the punishment, he is deterred from doing. 2. The evil of apprehension, or the pain which a man, who has exposed himself to punishment, feels at the thoughts of undergoing it. 3. The evils of sufferance, or the pain which a man feels, in virtue of the punishment itself, from the time when he begins to undergo it. 4. The pain of sympathy, and the other derivative evils resulting to the persons who are in connection with those who suffer from the preceding causes.

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