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Isn't 'moral luck' a self-contradictory term?

Paul Lin , 22.11.2010, 17:13
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Michael Ankney, 16.06.2011, 16:49
The accident of birth can be a fortunate or unfortunate thing. If this applies to moral luck then parents may or may not impose standards and limits at an early age. The question I think pertains to - will fortunate progeny pursue a moral course of life or not, but how soon in life fortunate progeny will discover morality and begin to integrate his/her knowledge and experiences into principles by which to live. There is nothing and no one guaranteeing success or efficiency at discovery and integration of one's mental processes and by all observable facts there is not and can be no logical precept that includes "the luck of the draw" in the natural "lottery". That is not what I am saying. I think that it is a matter of time and degree. By all standards nothing precludes the acquisition of knowledge and the integration into principles that make for a sense of life that is pro-self and pro-reality. Reason is the standard and reason is the norm, not the exception. Man is set by nature to pursue stasis and equilibrium and the ego will never go out of existence. The luck involved then entails advances in science and technology that make communication and interaction with rationally selfish people a likelihood.

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