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The 12 pages that link to Doctrine of double effect, each with the reason it gives.

• DeontologyRelated: It offers a way to judge actions whose harmful effects are not their intended means.

• Political assassinationRelated: It informs arguments about lethal operations whose stated target is a combatant but whose effects extend further.

• Moral judgmentRelated: It distinguishes intention from consequence in judgments about harmful acts.

• IntentionRelated: It makes the distinction between intention and foresight morally consequential.

• Trolley problemRelated: It helps explain judgments that distinguish redirecting danger from pushing someone.

• NecessityRelated: It offers one way to judge harmful actions claimed to be necessary for a good end.

• G. E. M. AnscombeRelated: Her analysis of intention influenced later debates over this distinction in moral judgment.

• Good and evilRelated: It shows how intention can distinguish permissible harm from deliberate wrongdoing.

• Judith Jarvis ThomsonRelated: Thomson’s trolley discussions examine whether intention and the means of saving lives alter permissibility.