LAW 604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deontological Ethics, Principle Of Double Effect, Casebook
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Pf yes; but in practice there are exceptions. Yes, all evils that result from a decision should be counted: are we balancing particular harms occurring or prevented in particular cases, or classes of harms (dudley and stevens). Definitely the latter, need to be concerned about the justifications we create. 3. 02 is open ended but drafters left to courts since they struggled making a rule: the moral pre-emption of such a balance by, categorical moral obligations. Lynch (irishman conscripted by ira to aid in attack on police) and the availability of a duress defense to aiding murder (although not murder itself). Lynch: can justify aiding others to do bad things, to do good things: actions that intimate harm versus actions that redirect harm that is already in motion. 2: to causing harms not happening anyway, without d"s action, not to mere accelerations by d of inevitable harms.
