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    Challenges→The moral difference between intentionally throwing a brick at a person and negligently throwing a brick without checking for bystanders is not expressible in a probability calculus.

    Intentionally throwing a brick at a person from a height is a distinct moral act from throwing a brick without checking whether anyone is below.

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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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