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    Supports→The principle of double effect must provide principled grounds for distinguishing between grave harms intended as means and grave harms foreseen as side effects

    This agential difference grounds a morally relevant asymmetry: the perpetrator of intended harm makes the victim's suffering serve his purposes in a way that side-effect harm does not require.

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    Perpetrator(as used in ethics and discussions of wrongdoing)
    A person who commits a harmful or illegal act.
    agential difference(as used in ethics and moral philosophy)
    The distinction between actions based on who is doing them and what they intend to accomplish. Here, it means the difference between harm someone deliberately causes versus harm that happens as an unintended side effect of their actions.
    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    morally relevant(as used in ethics)
    Something that matters when deciding whether an action is right or wrong.
    side-effect harm(as used in ethics)

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    Harm or suffering that results unintentionally as a consequence of someone's actions, rather than being the direct goal of those actions.

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