Is it justifiable to kill an innocent person with the following conditions?
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The issue of 'double agent' is a furphy, but the question raises a significant issue in more practical instances.
The Church Father Augustine was a proponent of 'unqualified absolutism'. Norman L. Geisler says, in Christian Ethics, page 82, Augustine said that one must never commit a great crime of one’s own in order to avoid someone else's greater crime. An example given was lying to ward off rape or even to save a life, which is strictly forbidden.
The modern Catholic Catechism, at least in part, supports the teachings of Augustine. It is forbidden to kill an innocent person for any reason:
1756 It is therefore an error to judge the morality of human acts by considering only the intention that inspires them or the circumstances (environment, social pressure, duress or emergency, etc.) which supply their context. There are acts which, in and of themselves, independently of circumstances and intentions, are always gravely illicit by reason of their object; such as blasphemy and perjury, murder and adultery. One may not do evil so that good may result from it.
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