
Paul Russell on Fate
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The Problem With Circumstantial Luck
Luck isn't all the same kind of thing is it? No exactly, you were asking me earlier about consequential luck but there's luck in our constitution and our kind of character. You might be lucky or unlucky in the kind of difficult moral dilemmas and challenges that we encounter. Sometimes you might be in terrible predicaments where you have very tough choices to make. This is something you don't really control but they will demand you to make a decision. That is circumstantial luck so I don't think that luck is something you can evade even on the most generous and imaginative metaphysical assumptions.
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