A person has moral luck when, even though a significant aspect of what she does is not within her control, we still regard her as subject to moral evaluation (Nagel, 723). Moral luck can be both bad and good luck, with the moral evaluation either being praise or shame. Moral bad luck suggests a person has …show more content…
Here, the character of the agent is constant across hypothetical situations, and the circumstances which the agent is placed under differs (Nagel, 724). For Stangl, his character would seem to have stayed constant, whether the Nazi Regime took over or not. Stangl was very good at following orders and was very ambitious to work his way up his career latter (Sereny, 27). Thus, if the Nazi Regime did not take over, and Stangl had stayed at his job as a police officer, the energy he successfully invested into death camps could have been invested into his job on the police force (Sereny, 145). If this was the case, perhaps Stangl would instead have been praised as a great officer. Thus, Stangl has been subject to luck in circumstances, as he could not control whether the Nazis took