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<head>1825 Jany. 31
Procedure Code<head>
Ch. Preface —Continue
§. General Review
Characteristic
File
Another characteristic
Flexibility
1. Characteristic of their system 1. Flexibility principle
Another characteristic of this system is its flexibility:
the provision it makes for minimizing evil in each
individual case according to the proportion as to the quantity of evil reasonably
to be expected in the different cases giving the preference sometimes either
to the direct or sometimes or to the collateral ends of justice.
The pr topics to which the diversification is susceptible
of being applied and is here applied accordingly may be thus enumerated
Topics for diversification
1 Distance as to place
2 do as to time
3 Circumstances affecting
sensibility
Here collect them together: 1. Distance in the line of place.<llb/> 2. in the line of time. 3. Circumstances affecting sensibility, as
per to &c
Objections to flexibility
1. Danger from blameless
deception
2. Danger from of abuse
by erroneous judication
The only objection that principle — the flexibility has
to be 1. changes of blameless deception in respect of the faappropriate
facts : 2. charges of abuse by perpetually erroneous
in relation to them
But for ...in the account given good and evil the foundation to beconsidered is most absolute always relative and comparation. Conform then the evil from flexibility with the evil from inflexibility. In case of inflexibility, the matter will be stragely conduct of the chances it will in virtue of the doing less evil by the replication of it then would have place if in application non made of it: but when there is inflexibility the chances requisite to holding the right are infinity to one. ... but in ... the state of things supposed by the objector would be ... minimal experience and observation, if the
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jeremy bentham |
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admiral pavel chichagov |
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