Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
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For instance, though nothing would appear more shocking to our natural sense of equity than to execute a man merely for having care- lessly thrown a stone into the street without hurting anybody.
CUS TOM A ND FA SHION. 65 yet, if the stone hnppened to kill anybocl}^, so great would be the effect of this accident on our moral sentiments that, though the man's folly and inhumanity would not be greater in one case than in the other, we should not consider the severest punishment too hard for him. ...Gross negligence is, there- fore, in law almost the same as malicious design. Lata culjja prope dolum est.
But our moral sentiments are considerably affected, not only by the fact of the prosperity or adversity of the person whose conduct we judge, and by the influence of fortune or af^cident on the result of his intentions, but they are also greatly modified by those two great principles of Custom and Fashion, which have caused so wide a difference of opinion about what is blameable or praiseworthy to prevail in different ages and nations.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
For instance, though nothing would appear more shocking to our natural sense of equity than to execute a man merely for having care- lessly thrown a stone into the street without hurting anybody.
CUS TOM A ND FA SHION. 65 yet, if the stone hnppened to kill anybocl}^, so great would be the effect of this accident on our moral sentiments that, though the man's folly and inhumanity would not be greater in one case than in the other, we should not consider the severest punishment too hard for him. ...Gross negligence is, there- fore, in law almost the same as malicious design. Lata culjja prope dolum est.
But our moral sentiments are considerably affected, not only by the fact of the prosperity or adversity of the person whose conduct we judge, and by the influence of fortune or af^cident on the result of his intentions, but they are also greatly modified by those two great principles of Custom and Fashion, which have caused so wide a difference of opinion about what is blameable or praiseworthy to prevail in different ages and nations.
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