Indeed, one resolution of the “moral luck” paradox is that free will does not truly exist, Kristin Mickelson, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has written.
The first drives drunk and kills a person.
The second drives drunk and loses control of her car, but by luck doesn’t kill anyone.
“Being blameworthy for an event is about being accountable for what you have done in the world,” Hartman wrote.
There’s no excluding luck from our calculations, because luck “saturates” who we are, what we do and the consequences of what we do, Hartman wrote.
Persons:
Kristin Mickelson, Roger Crisp, ” Robert Hartman, Hartman, ” Hartman, saturates ”
Organizations:
University of Colorado, The New Statesman, Ohio Northern University
Locations:
Boulder