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27c
In the application of legislation to the purposes of life
the legislator has only the choice of evils. There can be
no government without co-ercion - no coercion without suffering -
& separately considered that coercion must be an evil. The
punitory functions of government consist in the application of that
evil to the individual misdoers, - for the purpose of obtaining
in the interests of the community an exemption from
greater evils - or a production of pleasures of greater value
that the sufferings created by its coercive interposition
It is thus that the
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