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The Relationship Between Luck and Deliberation

Intuition about luck, the way that American philosopher Thomas Nagel would put it, we expect that people shouldn't be morally evaluated for things they don't have control over. So you're subject to luck and you're being held accountable for things that you're just lucky or unlucky about depending on what the causal background is that you have no control over. It's a kind of pull of moral intuitions that seem to take us in opposite directions. One intuition is that people really should only be held responsible for the things that reflect the quality of their own will,. The other intuition is that there's really a big difference when you hit a child and kill a child as a result of your

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