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    Supports→Counterfactuals cannot adequately capture the concept of circumstantial luck

    Circumstantial luck concerns the normative significance of unchosen contexts, but counterfactual analysis dissolves context by abstracting away the very particularity that makes those circumstances morally salient.

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    Key Terms

    Counterfactual analysis(as used in philosophy of causation)
    A way of understanding how things work by imagining what would happen if something were different—like saying 'if that note hadn't been sung, would the glass still have shattered?'
    Morally salient(as used in ethics)
    Important or relevant enough to matter when making moral judgments; something that ethics should pay attention to.
    Normative significance(as what Pereboom sets aside when analyzing free will logically)
    Having practical importance for how we should act, live, or treat others morally; whether something matters for our ethical responsibilities and values.
    Particularity(what empathy should focus on)
    The specific, unique details about an individual person or situation—what makes them different from everyone else.

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    circumstantial luck(Identified as one of the types into which causal luck may be exhausted)
    Luck in the situations and circumstances one faces, which affects what moral choices are available and thus affects moral responsibility

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