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    Supports→The would-be assassin who did not even try to kill may share the same degree of responsibility as the successful and unsuccessful assassins.

    The degree of responsibility attributed to the successful and unsuccessful assassins may depend not so much on the fact that they both tried to kill as on the fact that they were both willing to kill.

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    Attribution(as in whether a hair color can be reliably assigned to a term)
    Assigning or connecting a particular quality or characteristic to something—like saying a trait 'belongs to' or 'describes' that thing.
    Intention vs. outcome(as used in ethics)
    A key distinction in ethics between what someone meant to do (their goal) and what actually happened as a result of their actions.
    Moral luck(as used in ethics)
    The philosophical puzzle about whether it's fair to judge people differently for the same choice if one outcome succeeds and another fails through no fault of their own.

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    Willing (or willingness)(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
    Being ready or agreeing to do something; having the mental commitment to perform an action, regardless of whether you actually succeed in doing it.
    responsibility(as used in ethics)
    Being morally accountable for your actions—deserving praise or blame for what you do.

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    But now consider a different would-be assassin who does not even try to kill anyone, but only because his circumstances did not favor this option. This would-be assassin is willing to kill under favorable circumstances (and so he may seem to have had good circumstantial moral luck since he was not in those circumstances). Perhaps the degree of responsibility attributed to the successful and unsuccessful assassins described above depends not so much on the fact that they both tried to kill as on the fact that they were both willing to kill; in this case, the would-be assassin just introduced ma...

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