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Next, a man cannot deal Unjustly by himself in the sense in which

a man is Unjust who only does Unjust acts without being entirely

bad (for the two things are different, because the Unjust man is

in a way bad, as the coward is, not as though he were chargeable

with badness in the full extent of the term, and so he does not

act Unjustly in this sense), because if it were so then it would

be possible for the same thing to have been taken away from and

added to the same person:[29] but this is really not possible,

the Just and the Unjust always implying a plurality of persons.

Again, an Unjust action must be voluntary, done of deliberate

purpose, and aggressive (for the man who hurts because he has

first suffered and is merely requiting the same is not thought to

act Unjustly), but here the man does to himself and suffers the

same things at the same time.

Again, it would imply the possibility of being Unjustly dealt

with with one's own consent.