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    It is not the case that The doctrine of double effect does not exculpate agents from moral responsibility when foreseeable harm is severe, systematic, and disproportionate.

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    • 1.Distinguishing intended effects from foreseen side effects is essential to moral agency and culpability.
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    • 2.Severity and systematicity of harm do not change the moral structure of the act itself or its justification.
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    • 3.Holding agents responsible for all disproportionate foreseeable harms collapses the distinction between causing and allowing.
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    • 1.Moral agents have a duty to prevent foreseeable severe harms when reasonably within their power to do so.
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    • 2.Systematic and disproportionate harm patterns indicate negligence or indifference rather than genuine accident.
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    • 3.Double effect doctrine was designed for genuine side effects, not predictable consequences of chosen acts.
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