First Assignment for the Special Topic on Ethical Questions of Life and Death: On Train-Hitting-Person Cases and DDE
First Assignment for the Bioethics Special Topic: On the Train Running People Over and DDE DDE(Doctrine of Double Effect, the doctrine of double effect): When some actions inevitably bring about double consequences, namely one intended good result and another foreseeable bad result, the doctrine of double effect holds that such actions are good (that is, necessary under natural law) if and only if all of the following conditions are met at the same time: 1) The action must not be immoral 2) The bad consequence must not be the means to the good consequence 3) The intention of the action must be directed only toward the good consequence, although the accompanying…
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