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2 C

Of Defraudment by begging

Question 1.

Why the punishment in this case is no severer.

Reasons.

Because the mischief is much slighter in this
case than in that of any other fraud. In the
first place the mischief of the first order is but
slight. A man is made to part with a certain
sum of money: but this is no more than he
chooses himself to part with, and can spare. It
is however still a mischief: for what he gives, he
would not give, were it not to get rid rid of some a
certain pain which the idea of the offender's distress
exposes him to. A fraud of this kind may
be consider'd as a kind of robbery practised upon
by the application of a simple mental injury:
for the appearance of a fellowcreature in distress
will create a put oftentimes put as irresistible a force forcible alarm upon a compassionate
mind, as that of a drawn sword can
upon a timid one.

In the next place As to the mischief of the second
order this is next to nothing. The danger follows
the nature of the mischief of the first order. The
alarm is nothing. For every man feeling it to
be in his power to give or not to give, the sight instance
of a neighbour's another's being thus imposed upon never produces

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field	of defraudment by begging
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23550
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