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    Supports→Even a maximally expansive probabilistic outcomes framework cannot capture the moral implications of risk-taking per se.

    Expected-value and probabilistic frameworks are structurally incapable of representing action-structural or deontic facts, as they assign moral weight exclusively to states of the world rather than to the normative character of agency itself.

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    Action-structural facts(as used in ethics)
    Information about what makes an action right or wrong based on the nature of the action itself, rather than just what results it produces.
    Deontic facts(The explanandum in teleological theories)
    Facts about what is right and wrong, and what one ought to do.
    Expected value(the frequentist measure of what to expect)
    The average outcome you'd predict if you repeated something many times, calculated by weighing each possible result by how likely it is.
    Normative character of agency(as used in ethics)
    The rights, duties, and moral qualities that come from being an agent (someone who makes choices), independent of what results those choices produce.
    Probabilistic frameworks

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    (as used in decision theory)
    Systems of thinking that use probability and statistics to evaluate choices and outcomes, treating everything as a matter of how likely different results are.
    States of the world(as used in decision theory)
    The possible conditions or outcomes that could exist—what the world could be like after an action is taken.
    Structurally incapable(suggesting the league's basic design prevents it from working)
    Unable to do something because of how it's fundamentally built or organized, not because of temporary problems that could be fixed.
    moral weight(as used in ethics)
    How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.

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