Causal Contributions and Liability*
Causal Contributions and Liability*
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因果贡献和责任*
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2018
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Victor Tadros
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作者：
Victor Tadros
本文探讨了一个人为避免威胁而可能遭受的伤害的程度取决于她对威胁的因果贡献的程度。这一观点的几个不同的版本被认为是。结论大多是怀疑的事实，可能决定多大的因果关系的贡献一个人作出的威胁是不道德的重要性，或没有足够的重要性，使一个重要的区别责任。然而，理解因果关系可能是标量的方式有助于加深我们对其他道德上重要事实的理解，例如责任。
This article explores the extent to which the magnitude of harm that a person is liable to suffer to avert a threat depends on the magnitude of her causal contribution to the threat. Several different versions of this view are considered. The conclusions are mostly skeptical—facts that may determine how large of a causal contribution a person makes to a threat are not morally significant, or not sufficiently significant to make an important difference to liability. However, understanding ways in which causation may be scalar helps to deepen our understanding of other morally significant facts, such as responsibility.