In this hypothesis it is, at most, permitted on account of a reason commensurate with so great an evil as is the destruction of human life. Homicide is said to be indirect when it is no part of the agent's plan to bring about the death which occurs, so that this latter is not intended as an end nor is it selected as a means to further any purpose.
For the scope contemplated here, a person is regarded as innocent so long as he has not by any responsible act brought any hurt to the community or to an individual comparable with the loss of life. It arises as well from the manifest outrage upon one of the most conspicuous and cherished rights enjoyed by man, namely the right to life. The malice discernible in the sin is primarily chargeable to the violation of the supreme ownership of God over the lives of His creatures. It is said to happen directly when the death of the person is viewed either as an end attractive in itself, or at any rate is chosen as a means to an end. The direct killing of an innocent person is, of course, to be reckoned among the most grievous of sins.
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