What’s unfair about resultant moral luck?

Abstract

Abstract A popular reason for denying resultant moral luck has to do with its alleged unfairness. In this paper, I argue that although two existing objections against the unfairness argument are unsuccessful, it ultimately fails. First, I criticize the objection that the unfairness argument commits a category mistake. Second, I criticize the objection that because morality is unfair, the unfairness of resultant moral luck provides no evidence against its existence. Nevertheless, the unfairness argument fails because it cannot be fleshed out in a dialectically forceful way. The argument fails, in other words, because it cannot tip the scales in favor of denying resultant moral luck.