 Despite its intuitive appeal, Scanlon rejects the doctrine of double effect, arguing that intention is not directly relevant to permissibility. Scanlon concedes that intentions have predictive significance – they help predict how an agent will perform an action, and whether she is likely to succeed in performing the action or in implementing any larger plan of which this action might be a part. But such predictions are only indirectly relevant to judgements of permissibility. Scanlon also agrees that intentions matter when assessing how an agent has deliberated on a given occasion. But they are not relevant to judgements of permissibility, which ask instead “whether an agent may perform an action of a certain kind.” (Scanlon 2008, p. 2.)