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    Challenges→Contractualism cannot permit driving.

    Bob's death results from his own driving choices under a permitted practice, not from others imposing a risk on him without his participation, so his objection is not to the principle but to his own contingent misfortune.

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    Principle(T'oegye's metaphysics)
    Equated with the Supreme Ultimate; the source of the possibility for all existence, representing the potential of a thing that precedes its actual realisation.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    imposing a risk(as used in ethics and risk philosophy)
    Forcing someone to face potential danger or harm without their agreement.
    misfortune(as used in philosophy of luck and responsibility)
    Bad luck or an unfortunate event that happens by chance rather than because of someone's deliberate action.
    participation(Green's third main thesis of idealism)

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    The apprehension by individual human beings, as animal organisms, of some portion of the order constituted by a supra-individual intelligence.
    permitted practice(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
    An activity or behavior that is allowed by rules, laws, or social norms.

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