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Moral Dilemma & Luck

Posted: Sep 10, 2003 Wed 12:38 am     Views: 28   

A moral dilemma involves a situation in which the agent has only two courses of action available, and each requires performing a morally impermissible action.
A very classic example of a moral dilemma. A man borrows a weapon from his neighbor promising to return it at his neighbor’s request. One day the neighbor, in a fit of rage, asks for the weapon back apparently with the intention to kill someone. The man is faced with a dilemma: if he keeps his promise, then he will be an accessory to a murder; if he refuses to hand over the weapon, then he violates his promise.
A moral dilemma, then, is a situation involving a choice between two opposing courses of action, where there are moral considerations in support of each course of action. Few would doubt whether we are in fact faced with difficult moral choices. THE QUESTION RAISED, though, is whether such dilemmas can be SYSTEMATICALLY RESOLVED, or whether NO SYSTEMATIC SOLUTION is available.
Me facing DILEMMA argue that only one of the course of action can be our true obligation. For, it is not possible for any body to perform both actions at the same time, and hence one cannot be obligated by both. Therefore, if the notion of obligation is to make sense, there must be a systematic way of determining which of the two courses of action represents our true obligation. Strictly speaking, then genuine moral dilemmas do not exist, since all apparent moral conflicts can be systematically resolved. BUT AGAIN, each of our obligation is valid on face value until overridden by a stronger obligation. Once overridden, it is no longer obligatory. (if somebody has different view you are most welcome to say it...........)

Moral Luck :) occurs whenever luck makes a moral difference. Can luck ever make a moral difference?. Many different views have been considered. One of them is, perhaps a difference in what a person is morally responsible for, but it has also been suggested both that luck affects the moral justification of our actions and that it affects a person’s moral status in general (that is, that it affects how mroally good or bad a person is). We know that luck enters into our lives in countless ways. it affects our success and our happiness. We might well think that morality is the one arena in which luck has no power, that when it comes to a person’s moral standing, her standing is exactly the one she deserves. LUCK CANNOT ALTER THAT STANDING ONE BIT. (again readers comments always welcome.........)


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