LessonsObligation Beyond Capacity: Possibility, Ability, and Moral JudgmentQuiz

The same event may help one person and inconvenience another. Rain may benefit crops but make a particular journey difficult. Here good or bad means suitability or unsuitability to a particular aim, not a verdict concerning religious reward.

Suitability to a goal is relative. Changing the goal does not necessarily change the event or its nature. This sense of evaluation therefore should not be equated with normative blameworthiness.

An outcome being unpleasant to someone is not by itself an argument that its attribution to divine action is intrinsically impossible.

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Suitability to aims and relative value

Obligation Beyond Capacity: Possibility, Ability, and Moral Judgment

The same event may help one person and inconvenience another. Rain may benefit crops but make a particular journey difficult. Here good or bad means suitability or unsuitability to a particular aim, not a verdict concerning religious reward.

Suitability to a goal is relative. Changing the goal does not necessarily change the event or its nature. This sense of evaluation therefore should not be equated with normative blameworthiness.

An outcome being unpleasant to someone is not by itself an argument that its attribution to divine action is intrinsically impossible.