Two equally reckless drivers can face wildly different moral judgment

Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel pointed out that a drunk driver who kills a pedestrian is judged far more harshly than an equally drunk driver who happens to make it home safe, even though both took the identical risk. Neither driver controlled whether a pedestrian stepped into the road, so their differing outcomes come down to luck, not virtue, yet moral judgment tracks the outcome anyway.

— Bernard Williams & Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck — Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 50, 1976

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