Do you believe in Moral Luck?

[ploto]

If a bystander were asked to morally evaluate Drivers A and B, there is very good reason to expect him to say that Driver A is due more moral blame than Driver B.

I don't agree with this claim from Wikipedia. I do not think most people would access moral blame on the truck driver who hit the kid.

In the OP example- both acted immorally. In Ruff's example neither did.

[spurster]

Are you thispego in disguise? What are you talking about?

I didn't think I was that opaque. People who take greater risks or take more risks or both will likely have more negative consequences. Perhaps the DUI that ended up a manslaughter was because that person was DUI many times, an accident waiting to happen. Perhaps the DUI that wasn't a manslaughter was because that person was DUI for the first time.

The key words here are "likely" and "perhaps". Every risk might turn out badly. Even driving a truck as safely as possible is a risk. Life is a risk.

It would seem to me that "moral luck" is just the "why do bad things happen to good people?" question from a different angle.