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Ep. 149 - Moral Luck and Theories of Moral Responsibility w/Dr. Taylor Cyr
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Is There a Difference Between Constitutive Luck and Circumstantial Luck?
"It does reflect worse on an agent when they succeed in doing the bad thing they intended to do," he says. "I think one of the examples, I forget if it was in Nagel or Michael Zimmerman's paper on moral luck,. But imagine that the assassin sneezes right at the time they would need to fire the gun to hit the assassin." The idea is like you have to choose whether you're going to have a lot of constitutive luck or whether you’re going to admit outcome luck or results in luck.
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