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And, besides all this, a man cannot act Unjustly without his act

falling under some particular crime; now a man cannot seduce his

own wife, commit a burglary on his own premises, or steal his own

property.

After all, the general answer to the question is to allege what

was settled respecting being Unjustly dealt with with one's own

consent.

Chapter XVII.

It is obvious, moreover, that being Unjustly dealt by and dealing

Unjustly by others are both wrong; because the one is having

less, the other having more, than the mean, and the case is

parallel to that of the healthy in the healing art, and that of

good condition in the art of training: but still the dealing

Unjustly by others is the worst of the two, because this involves

wickedness and is blameworthy; wickedness, I mean, either wholly,

or nearly so (for not all voluntary wrong implies injustice), but

the being Unjustly dealt by does not involve wickedness or

injustice.