Nagel's Theory Of Moral Luck

Moral luck is basically saying that you can morally hold a person responsible for any chain of actions, despite the circumstances and or factors. Whether you’re giving them the praises for said actions or whether you are putting the blame on them. Moral luck can create a contradiction, a paradox in society way of viewing the concept of moral responsibility. Nagel disagrees with the moral luck theory. Nagel believes that a person can really only be held fully responsible for what they do intentionally, but on the other hand, what said person does, can greatly result on what they did not do. I know confusing right? To break it down, moral luck theory has several factors to it.
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It was purely accidental, the driver did not mean to hit the child. The driver will feel horrible in his/her role in the event. He can't be blamed because of the circumstances is was out of his absolute control. However if the driver knew that somewhere deep down he/she was even a slight bit guilty of negligence, failing to check brakes fast enough, etc… he/she will therefore blame himself for the accident.
Constitutive luck- meaning luck in general. The kind of person that you are. A luck in which is it by chance.Some have better luck than others, therefore causing the unfortunately unlucky person to feel some type of way. An example of this that violates nagel moral luck theory is that en envious person will that the success of another person. he/she can be morally labeled and condemned as envious even if he is cordial to them and does nothing to spoil , interfere or derail their success.
Luck in one circumstances- circumstantial luck. Meaning that certain circumstances that we find ourselves in, the test we face,are all determined by factors way beyond our