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Doesn't God giving orders to demons contradict the principle of double effect?

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**Doesn't God giving orders to demons contradict the principle of double effect ?** 1 Kings 22:19-23, 1 Samuel 16:14 and Judges 9:23 clearly seem to say that God gave orders to demons. Thomas Aquinas also said that God sometimes sends demons to punish people and that demons always punish with evil intentions (they punish out of hatred and envy of humanity, not out of justice, so demons always sin when they punish someone). > The doctrine (or principle) of double effect is often invoked to explain the permissibility of an action that causes a serious harm, such as the death of a human being, as a side effect of promoting some good end. > According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end. > — [Doctrine of Double Effect (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect) The principle of double effect says that "the good effect must be produced directly by the action, not by the bad effect. Otherwise the agent would be using a bad means to a good end, which is never allowed". Doesn't God doing justice against mankind through the sins of demons violate the principle of double effect?
Asked by GUILHERME DE SOUZA (41 rep)
Apr 17, 2022, 07:46 PM
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