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Contemplation
The difficulty lies
only in the case of Antipathy.
To clear the way, we may begin with the laying the
two first species of resentment out of the case: for
as in those cases there is a real mischief done to
either to the party who harbours the resentment or
to some other, there is a clear demand for punish-
ment
on the score for the purpose of prevention. The pleasure [then]
whatever it be which is reaped by any one from
observance to the punishment is so much clear gain.
The only remaining case then is where the resewnt-
ment is a mere antipathy: producing not from any
natural and constant cause such as that of a
real inquiry, but to from an accidental and caprici-
ous turn of the imagination.
Reason for the af-
-firmative.
Now it might seem at first right that upon the
principles we set out with even in this case pun-
ishment might be warranted on the score of compen-
sation. The party against whom the antipathy is,
is but one: those who harbour it are suppose a
thousand; or is that should not be deemed enough, let
us take a million. Upon this state of the case,
laying all consequences out of the question, it would
be understandable that unless the pain of the obnoxious
partly were
a millions of times greater than the pleas
-ure which those to whom he was obnoxious would
each of them upon an average P enjoy as seeing it,
it wold be worth while upon the whole to subject him to
that harm.
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punishment |
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compensation |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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