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197. Punishment, however, may be truly held to express the 'moral disapprobation' of society, but it is to the external side of action that the disapprobation is directed

198. The principle that punishment should be regulated by the importance of the right violated explains the severity with which 'culpable negligence is punished

199. And the punishment of crimes done in drunkenness illustrates the same principle

200. It also justifies the distinction between 'criminal' and 'civil' injuries, (which is not a distinction between injuries to individuals and to the community, for no 'right' is violated by injury done to an individual as such)

201. There would be no reason in associating terror with breaches of a right which the offender either did not know that he was breaking or which he could not help breaking

202. When such ignorance and inability are culpable, it depends on the seriousness of the wrong or the degree to which the civil suit involves deterrent effects, whether they should be treated as crimes