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¶ 1737

An effect can be tolerated without being Willed by its agent; for instance, a mother's exhaustion from tending her Sick child. A bad effect is not imPutable if it was not willed either as an end or as a means of an action, e.g., a death a perSon incurs in aiding someone in danger. For a bad effect to be imputable it must be foreseeable and the agent must have the possibility of avoiding it, as in the case of manslaughter caused by a drunken driver.

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