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Indirect Legislation
Conclusion
Conclusion
Legislation
choice of evils
Forget not that human penal policy is but a choice of
evils: be content with choosing the least: and
do not in your zeal to the exclude the less, give
admittance to the greater. [Consider that] simple
death is almost always either unnecessary or unavailing:
Impropriety of
simple death
unnecessary so long to against those whom pain will frighten
or confinement will restrain: unavailing against
those who fly to it as a refuge from despair.
The policy of the legislator who punishes every
thing with death is the policy of a the woman
who crushes a spider because she does not like
to look at it. The policy humanity of him who resolves can
on no occasion can bear endure to make it more terrible than it is
made by nature is the policy humanity virtue of the surgeon
who will nt bear to amputate a limb.
Identifier: | JB/087/194/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87. |
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jeremy bentham |
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c. hamilton |
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