1. Excerpts from Locke and Burke
But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. ... For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. ...
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