Where the agent is culpable for the corruption, as Aquinas acknowledges in cases of vincible ignorance, the verdict generates responsibility for the corruption rather than a fresh obligation to comply.
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A judgment or conclusion that determines someone is responsible (and therefore blameworthy) for what already happened, rather than creating a new duty for them to follow going forward.
Vincible ignorance(contrasted with invincible ignorance, which is when someone couldn't possibly have known better)
Ignorance (not knowing something) that a person could have overcome through reasonable effort—basically, you had a chance to learn but didn't try hard enough.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.