Editing Principle of double effect (section)

==Criticisms==
While some consequentialists may reject the Principle, [[Alison McIntyre]] states that "many criticisms of the principle of double effect do not proceed from consequentialist assumptions".<ref name="McIntyre">{{Cite journal |last=McIntyre |first=Alison |author-link=Alison McIntyre |date=2004-07-28 |title=Doctrine of Double Effect |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/double-effect/ |journal=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]}}</ref>

[[Alyson Hoyt]] argues that the DDE should not be used in wartime due to its potential for misuse and the complexity of modern warfare. She claims while the DDE aims to justify actions with unintended harmful consequences, it can be easily manipulated to rationalize civilian casualties as mere "side effects" of military objectives. <ref name="Hoyt">{{Cite journal |last=Hoyt|first=Alyson |author-link=Alyson Hoyt|date=2004-07-28 |title=The Doctrine of Double Effect as an Ineffective Tool in War Theory |url=https://archive.org/details/thedoctrineofdou1094543476 |journal=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]}}</ref>

[[A. Dirk Moses]] in his book ''[[The Problems of Genocide]]'', writes that the doctrine of double effect is used to excuse the killing of civilians as [[collateral damage]] of military activity. He disputes that war can justify such killings, and questions why they should be considered more morally permissible than killing civilians for other reasons, such as genocide.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moses |first1=A. Dirk |title=[[The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression]] |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-10358-0 |page=2 |language=en}}</ref>