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    In these cases, death is caused as a means to a good end,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Double Effect does not explain the permissibility of the grenade soldier's action or cases of lethal self-defense using overwhelming force.

    In these cases, death is caused as a means to a good end, not merely as a foreseen side effect.

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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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