What is moral luck? Moral luck describes circumstances where someone is assigned moral blame or praise for an action or its consequences even though it is clear that said someone did not have full control over either the action or its consequences.
I tried think about an interesting time moral luck has affected me but eventually failed, so i decided to use the example of a fire fighter. A firefighter has absolutely no control over when or where a fire starts or how many people are involved. Their job is too come and stop the fire and make sure people are safe. Moral luck can affect them when they fail to save someone from the fire, they are blamed for the failure and have to deal the the emotional trauma from that. Even thought they had nothing to do with the fire. Whether or not they tried their best doesn't matter.
Moral luck describes circumstances where someone is assigned moral blame or praise for an action or its consequences even though it is clear that said someone did not have full control over either the action or its consequences. Moral luck is everywhere and will affect everyone at some point during their lives, it's just a matter of when and where.
-Eric
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ReplyDeleteGood example on the firefighter, they never know what problem they are going to face. The second definition can be replaced with if moral luck is a serious ethical problem or not. You can expand on how moral luck affects everybody's everyday life.
ReplyDeleteTry expanding on how moral luck affects everyone and try to provide more information because the word limit is 240 and I think if you added more information your blog would become stronger.
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