Pandemic Rule-Breakers, Moral Luck, and Blaming the Blameworthy.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
; 32(1): 41-47, 2023 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-36468354
ABSTRACT
This paper takes under consideration a piece by Roger Crisp in which he questions what the problem of moral luck can teach us about COVID-19 lockdown rule-breakers. Taking the position that although such rule-breakers might seem to be new examples of moral luck, Crisp ends up denying the existence of moral luck and argues that moral luck is an outdated notion in so far as it relies on other questionable aspects of morality, that is, retributivist punishment and blame. Although the author agrees with Crisp that pandemic rule-breaker cases are putative examples of resultant moral luck, he proposes that Crisp has misconstrued what moral luck is and the paper examines in detail what he sees as the numerous problems with Crisp's claims. The author concludes that Crisp's analysis of pandemic rule-breaking does not shed any new light on the moral luck debate, and the difficult questions of luck, moral responsibility, and desert are not so easily resolved.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
Journal subject:
ETICA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Hong Kong