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    Supports→The principle of double effect does not permit a harmful act merely because the agent's ultimate aim is good and the harm was regretted rather than welcomed.

    Aquinas's distinction in Summa Theologiae II-II Q.64 grounds permissibility in the structure of the act's causal order, not merely the agent's psychological attitude toward harm.

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