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-====== PBA211H: The Principle of Double Effect ====== 
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-Principles: 
-  - Can't do evil (the action taken must be good or morally neutral) 
-  - Can't intend evil (the evil effect must not be intended) 
-  - Can't depend on evil (the evil effect must not be the means through which the good comes about -- the ends doesn't justify the means, we cannot do evil so that good may come about) 
-  - There needs to be a really good (proportionate) reason to tolerate evil as an unintended but foreseen side-effect 
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-FIXME Dan Bader Nov 2008 tutorial 
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-FIXME 
-  * self-defence 
-  * mother's life at risk 
-  * http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/training/classroom/circumstances/danger 
-  * http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/us-bishops-clarify-abortion-for-mother-s-health 
-  * Can we //ever// "kill [an innocent person] to save?" What if there are no good moral options? (e.g. Margaret McBridge / modified Chilean miner's scenario)