Judith Jarvis Thomson is known for her exploration of the doctrine of double effect—the idea that a human action with negative means or ends may be morally permissible or impermissible depending on whether the negative factors are not directly but only “obliquely” or indirectly intended (i.e., understood as necessary or foreseeable but not as the purpose of the action itself).
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