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be deliberate; and 2nd, that action with reference to pleasure leaves no room for any distinction of right and wrong.

Let us consider whether this second premiss is really true.
What would be requisite in order to destroy the difference between innocent and guilty conduct?
The one thing that would do it would be to destroy the faculty of effective self-criticism.
As long as that remained, as long as a man compared his conduct with a preconceived standard and that effectively it need not make much difference if his only real motive were pleasure; for it would become disagreeable to him to incur the sting of conscience.
But those who deluded themselves with that fallacy were so inattentive to the phenomena that they confused the judgement after the act that that that act satisfied or did not satisfy the requirements of a standard with a pleasure or pain