Article — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis
Article I: On Personal Injuries
Highest General Principle. Private persons, as such, in their mutual relation, are equally inviolable; and this without any consideration of merit or demerit, consent or dissent. Wherefore no malice, no formal or virtual renunciation, can take away or diminish that inviolability. Therefore:
No one can assume another person as a means for himself.
No evil of neighbor can be intended or chosen by another, but only permitted for a just cause, so that all evils of another which follow, as effects, upon someone's voluntary action, can be excused either in no way or only by the principle of double effect.
A conflict of rights, as it is called, cannot arise except concerning rights over a thing and alienable goods, which can be possessed by several and can pass from one person to another.
These things, as it were, dominate the whole present argument.
Yet another perpetual principle, already demonstrated before, remains: no injury is done to one consenting.
The division of personal injuries is from the object. Some injuries touch immaterial goods: supernatural grace, truth, the use of reason, honor, reputation; others harm the body.