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    Supports→The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to shield fellow soldiers does not intend his own death as a means, but merely foresees it as a side effect, if Double Effect explains the permissibility of his action.

    Double Effect permits an action only if harmful results are foreseen but not intended.

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    In contrast, Warren Quinn’s proposal to substitute the concept of direct agency for the concept of intending to cause harm to someone as a means (see Section 1) would effectively broaden the category of results that count as cases of causing intended harm. If the soldier who throws himself on the grenade in order to shield his fellow soldiers from the force of an explosion acts permissibly, and if the permissibility of his action is explained by Double Effect, then he must not intend to sacrific

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