Thus the problem of moral luck arises, the question of whether the intuition that luck must have no bearing on moral worth, and that luck plays a critical role in determining a person's moral standing. ... Constitutive Luck is the luck of possessing one's own personality, abilities, and desires. ... It is possible that the reason and individual acts with bad intentions is due to the fact that they were born prone to jealousy, or spite, or other vices. ... However, this is generally not how people think, people are held accountable for what they are like; the reasons for what they a...

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This shows a child that his father or mother is "bad" in the eyes of the other parent, and the child, as an extension of the first parent, feels "bad" too. ... Paul's mother tells him that they are the poor members of the family because, as mentioned before, his father had no luck. She defines luck as what causes one to have money, and states that she is not lucky either. Paul announces at this point that he is lucky, and begins to search for the secret to luck. ... Paul's driving force is his desire to attain luck in order to please his mother. ...

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The solders that had a bad experience were traumatized beyond help. ... Lyman seemed to have all the luck and that led to Henry's resentment toward him. ... And he showed he good luck more by getting a good number on the draft where Henry got a bad one and so he signed up for the military. ...

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They made the German people believe that they had ears in the walls and that they could have no free thought if it was anything bad against the Nazis or they would be arrested. ... This meant of course that the Jews were out of luck and I believe he actually took delight in their destruction. ... He took control and then convinced the German people that only true loyalty to him was their salvation from their bad times. ...

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The story I read by R.L. Stine is a compelling mystery where you dont find out who or what happened until the very end. A boy named James is running away from home. James is a young man with blonde hair and green eyes. Ever since he was little he has had built up anger inside of him because i...

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The Theory of Money and the Theory of Value The most important point to emerge from Marx's theory of money is the idea that money is a form of value. The difficulty with this idea is that we are more familiar with money itself than with value in other forms. But value does appear in forms other than money. For example, the balance sheet of a capitalist firm estimates the value of goods in process and of fixed capital which has not yet been depreciated, as well as the value of inventories of finished commodities awaiting sale. Each of these aggregations of commodities has a value, usually...

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When he returns to Lagos he sees the slums he has not been to and the nostalgic poem he wrote about nature and how "sweet" it is to lie under trees under the "tender glow of the fading sun," is juxtaposed against the dead carcass of a dog "the dogs that taxi drivers hit for good luck. ...

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