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    Moral luck is encompassing in its influence on agents' ch... — Carmelics
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    Supports→There are no desert-entailing differences between moral agents.

    Moral luck is encompassing in its influence on agents' characters, actions, and outcomes.

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    The above quotations notwithstanding, Nagel himself doesn’t fully embrace a skeptical conclusion about responsibility on grounds of moral luck, but others have done so, most notably, Neil Levy (2011). According to Levy’s “hard luck view”, the encompassing nature of moral luck means “that there are no desert-entailing differences between moral agents” (2011: 10). Of course, there are differences between agents in terms of their characters and the good or bad actions and outcomes that they produce, but Levy’s point is that, given the influence of luck in generating these differences, they don’t ...

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