The Principle of Double Effect

The first principle of double effect is that you shouldn't do something that's either bad or indifferent. So the first criterion when you're applying double effect is effectively ruling out intrinsic legal, that's its purpose. The action that you're seeking to perform must be good or indifferent, so nothing intrinsically evil. And if you deny that there are certain kinds of actions that are intrinsically evil, then you've... At best, what you've done is you've adopted a kind of consequentialism where you think that actions are judged only in terms of their effects.