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Could A Terrorist Use A Version Of The Doctrine Of Double Effect To Justify Their Violent Acts

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Could a Terrorist Use a Version of the Doctrine of Double Effect to Justify Their Violent Acts? For it to be possible for a terrorist to use the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) to justify their violent acts, they would have to explain that the bad effects of their actions were not directly intended, but merely foreseen as inevitable side effects. If they could prove that the bad effects were not their main goal, or the means to reach their main goal, then it is possible that the DDE would deem their acts permissible. For their acts to be permitted by the DDE, they would have to explain how their actions met the four required conditions of the DDE, which are: 1. the nature-of-the-act condition, the means-end condition, the right-intention condition,

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