[Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain]@TWC D-Link bookMoral Science; A Compendium of Ethics PART II 88/699
Thus the right hand is by nature more powerful than the left; yet it is possible that all men may become ambidextrous.
Those regulations of justice that are not by nature, but by human appointment, are not the same everywhere; nor is the political constitution everywhere the same; yet there is one political constitution only that is by nature the best everywhere (VII.). To constitute Justice and Injustice in acts, the acts must be voluntary; there being degrees of culpability in injustice according to the intention, the premeditation, the greater or less knowledge of circumstances.
The act that a person does may perhaps be unjust; but he is not, on that account, always to be regarded as an unjust man (VIII.). Here a question arises, Can one be injured voluntarily? It seems not, for what a man consents to is not injury.
Nor can a person injure himself.
Injury is a relationship between two parties (IX.).
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