QUOTE: Does
fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for
personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of
a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life.
We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption
of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself,
and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to
live, this shall.
AUTHOR: John
Stuart Mill, FRSE
(20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and
civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political
theory, and political economy. He has been called "the most influential
English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". Mill's conception
of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited
state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed
by Jeremy Bentham. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach
to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of
falsification as the key component in the scientific method. Mill was also a
Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy.
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