>at least sometimes significantly different from the deontological status of actually participating in the act, a distinction similar to use/mention distinction

>at least sometimes significantly different from the deontological status of actually participating in the act, a distinction similar to use/mention distinctions. True, that's as much as the paper argues, too. My point wasn't that most deontologists would consider it immoral, only that someone has argued (quite convincingly) that it can be.