I'd like to see moral principles that deal with "continuous sins". The "after the fact" deals with applying double effect after the material cooperation is determined. There is no need to do so once it is determined the cooperation is material.
Can you explain why?
If you are correct, it means we need not concern ourselves with:
1) Whether the act is good/indifferent or evil
2) Whether we can do evil that good may come
3) Whether the intention is good or evil
4) Whether or not there is a good at least equal to the evil.
I just can’t get my mind around how those questions become irrelevant to the morality of a human act (particularly one which cooperated in evil).
Ps: Can you find anything is a traditional manual on remote material cooperation which distinguishes between “in the present” cooperation from “after the fact” cooperation (and why double effect should apply for the former, but not the latter)?
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