Aaron Edwards
What is moral
luck?
Moral luck is
whether an individual should be praised or blamed due to external conditions
outside of their control. An example of moral luck in my own life happen this semester
at Southern Connecticut State University at the Field House. I was playing a
game a basketball and my attention was for the inbound person to pass me the
ball and I was suppose to throw a full court pass to my friend on the other
end. So the ball gets passed in to me and I heave the basketball down the court
and instead of ball going to my friend it goes straight in the net for a full
court shot. My intention was to pass the ball but my action got me praised by
my teammates for such an amazing shot.
But do I really
think that moral luck is a serious ethical problem no because in life things
like this can happen everyday. For example if someone has a gun to your head
you still have 2 choices either to get shot or try to defend yourself. The
relationship to what I’m saying is that if things are going bad for you a
change can happen if you want to better yourself. I don’t believe in luck at
all I think things happen for a reason so you have to live with it and move on.
I like your example of the basketball being thrown, that was definitely some kind of luck. I do however believe there are other variables in some circumstances. It is not always black and white and that is important to remember.
ReplyDeleteI agree that luck doesn't play as significant of a role in our lives as we are sometimes led to believe. I also like your basketball example. However I think luck, or at least what we perceive as luck, definitely exists, even if it's minimal.
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