pdf23ds comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong
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I don't think that's quite the same usage of "moral luck". According to the technical term, it's when you, for example, judge someone who was driving drunk and hit a person more harshly than someone who was driving drunk and didn't hit anyone, all else being equal. In other words, things entirely outside of your control that make the same action more or less blameworthy. Another example, from the link:
I don't see the difference between this usage and Zack's/Eliezer's: the definition given in the SEP link is:
A situation where all of an agent's options are blameworthy seems quite clearly to fall within this category.
OK, I suppose it counts as an instance, though I'm not convinced Eliezer intended the phrase in that sense. But it's certainly one of the instances I'm less interested in.
Agreed.