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    A complete ethics of risk must distinguish between intentional and unintentional risk exposure, and between voluntary risk-taking, accepted imposed risks, and non-accepted imposed risks.

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    • 1.Moral analysis of risk requires attending to the mental states of the risk-imposer, including whether harm is intended.
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    • 2.Moral analysis of risk requires attending to whether the person exposed to risk has consented to that exposure.
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    • 3.These distinctions cannot be captured by a framework that treats risks solely as probabilistic mixtures of outcomes.
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    • 1.Consequentialist frameworks (Bentham, Singer) hold that moral weight derives from outcomes and their probabilities, not the mental states accompanying them.
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    • 2.The distinction between intentional and unintentional risk imposition tracks causal history rather than the harm's magnitude, making it morally epiphenomenal.
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    • 3.A complete ethics of risk should maximize expected welfare across all affected parties, rendering intent-based distinctions redundant to that calculus.
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    • 1.Structural injustice theorists (Young, Anderson) argue that focusing on individual intent obscures systemic risk distributions imposed on marginalized groups without meaningful consent.
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    • 2.The voluntary/non-voluntary distinction presupposes genuine background conditions of fairness that rarely obtain, making consent-based frameworks systematically misleading.
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    • 3.A complete ethics of risk must therefore prioritize structural analysis of who bears risk over the mental states of individual risk-imposers.
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    Moral ResponsibilityJustice & Punishment

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    Accepted imposed risks(as risks people didn't choose but have accepted)
    Dangers that are forced upon someone by circumstances or other people, but that person agrees to or tolerates them.
    Non-accepted imposed risks(as the most ethically problematic category of risk)
    Dangers that are forced upon someone against their will or without their knowledge or permission.
    Unintentional risk exposure(as the opposite category to intentional risk)
    When someone causes potential harm without meaning to or without realizing they're doing it.
    ethics(Fichte's System of Ethics)
    The philosophical science that provides an a priori deduction of our moral nature in general and of our specific duties as human beings.
    intentional risk exposure(Contrasted with unintentional risk exposure in the author's taxonomy of morally relevant risk types.)
    A risk imposed on a person as the deliberate aim of the agent's action.
    risk(The author is characterizing and then challenging the standard decision-theoretic conception of risk.)
    In the probabilistic framework under critique, risks are treated as probabilistic mixtures of outcomes.
    voluntary risk-taking(Distinguished from risks imposed on a person who accepts them under external circumstances and risks imposed without acceptance.)
    A risk situation in which the person exposed to risk has chosen to accept that exposure.

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    Examples are easily found that exhibit the problematic nature of this division between the two disciplines. Compare the act of throwing down a brick on a person from a high building to the act of throwing down a brick from a high building without first making sure that there is nobody beneath who can be hit by the brick. The moral difference between these two acts is not obviously expressible in a probability calculus. An ethical analysis of the difference will have to refer to the moral aspects
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