Jeremy Bentham / 边沁

Jeremy Bentham / 边沁 appears in 100.法律的悖论：谢天谢地，幸好我们还有罗翔 as the utilitarian reference for punishment theory. The episode uses Bentham’s greatest-happiness frame to explain why punishment can be justified as a painful tool for reducing larger social harm.

The source also marks the danger in that logic. If punishment becomes only a calculation of deterrence, individuals can be used as examples and light offenses can be overpunished, which ties Bentham’s role to Punishment Theory Tradeoff and Criminal Law As Power Limitation.

Connections

• Punishment Theory Tradeoff - punishment-theory page where Bentham anchors the utilitarian side.
• Criminal Law As Power Limitation - constraint needed when deterrence arguments expand state power.
• Liberalism-Paternalism Boundary - adjacent liberal-utilitarian boundary problem in the episode.