*32* Nam quod ad Phalarim attinet, perfacile iudicium est. Nulla est enim societas nobis cum tyrannis, et potius summa distractio est, neque est contra naturam spoliare eum, si possis, quem est honestum necare, atque hoc omne genus pestiferum atque impium ex hominum communitate exterminandum est. Etenim, ut membra quaedam amputantur, si et ipsa sanguine et tamquam spiritu carere coeperunt et nocent reliquis partibus corporis, sic ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae a communi tamquam humanitatis corpore[292] segreganda est. Huius generis quaestiones sunt omnes eae, in quibus ex tempore officium exquiritur. [289] _ii_ Bt., Ed.; _hi_ B a b; _hii_ H; _hij_ c. [290] _quae vacent iustitia_ MSS., Ed., Heine; _quae vacent iniustitia_ cod. Ubaldini, Bt.^1; _quae non v. iustitia_ O. [291] Bracketed by Unger, Edd. [292] _humanitatis corpore_ Muret, cod. Guelf., Ed., Bt., Heine; _humanitate corporis_ MSS., Müller; Unger strikes out _corporis_. #The interest of society is the interest of the individual.# VI. This, then, ought to be the chief end of all men, to make the interest of each individual and of the whole body politic identical. For if the individual appropriates to selfish ends what should be devoted to the common good, all human fellowship will be destroyed. *27* And further, if nature ordains that one man shall desire to promote the interests of a fellow-man, whoever he may be, just because he is a fellow-man, then it follows, in accordance with that same nature, that there are interests that all men have in common. And if this is true, we are all subject to one and the same law of nature; and if this also is true, we are certainly forbidden by nature's law to wrong our neighbour. Now the first assumption is true; therefore the conclusion is likewise true. *28* For that is an absurd position which is taken by some people, who say that they will not rob a parent or a brother for their own gain, but that their relation to the rest of their fellow-citizens is quite another thing. Such people contend in essence that they are bound to their fellow-citizens by no mutual obligations, social ties, or common interests. This attitude demolishes the whole structure of civil society. #Better endure any loss than wrong a fellow man for gain.#