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Of TheftReasons
Quest. IX
Why self-preservation from immediate want is made
a ground of Extenuation.
1. Because, taking the fact of the extenuation for granted, the punishment
must be inefficaceous. See Introd. Ch [Cases unusual ]
2. Because it detracts from the secondary mischief
of the offence: from the alarm and from the
danger. From a man's being in such
necessity at one time it follows not that he will
be in the same necessity continually: and from
his stealing when at a time that he has this motive to urge
him it follows not that he will steal when
he has it not.
3. For the satisfaction of the people. The circumstance
which give rise to the offence saves their
compassion for the offender: as which compassion
when the case is strong will rise so high as to
get the better of their resentment. If the law punishes,
those instances in the against punishment administerd by the law goes beyond that which their would suggest it is apt to change sides
A law, and point itself against the law.
Quest. X
Why the preservation of another in immediate
want is made a ground of extenuation.
Reasons
For the same three reasons as in the last preceding
case: except that the first is not so strong
4. There is this further reason that such an
exclamation appearing upon the face of the law serves
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