If regret sufficed to render harm unintended, virtually any atrocity could be licensed by a sufficiently remorseful perpetrator, collapsing the doctrine's action-guiding content entirely.

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A person who commits a harmful or illegal act.

atrocity(as used in ethics)

An extremely cruel, brutal, or evil act.

harm(Used to evaluate whether failures to act constitute harms under the harm principle)

Making someone significantly worse off than they would have been otherwise, assessed counterfactually relative to a baseline.

regret(Distinguished from remorse in phenomenological arguments for ethical pluralism)

An emotional response fitting to finding oneself in circumstances involving difficult moral choices

remorseful(as used in ethics)

Feeling genuine regret and sorrow for something you've done wrong.

render(as used in philosophical arguments)

To make something become a certain way; to cause something to be described as something.

unintended(as used in ethics)

Not done on purpose; happening by accident rather than by deliberate choice.

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