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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.

    Foot's trolley problem analyses demonstrate that the impermissibility of the surgeon harvesting one patient to save five persists even when the surgeon is genuinely grief-stricken, confirming that regret cannot transform instrumental harm into mere side-effect.

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    Key Terms

    Foot's trolley problem(as used in ethics)
    A famous thought experiment created by philosopher Philippa Foot that asks whether it's okay to actively harm one person to save many others. It's used to test our moral intuitions about when harm is justified.
    Impermissibility(ethics)
    The opposite of permissibility; when an action is not allowed or is morally wrong according to a set of rules.
    Philippa Foot(as a key neo-Aristotelian thinker)
    A 20th-century philosopher who revived Aristotelian ethics and argued that morality is grounded in facts about human nature and what helps us flourish.
    instrumental harm(as used in ethics)
    Harm that you cause intentionally as a means to achieve a goal, like hurting someone on purpose to accomplish something else.
    side-effect

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