the view forcefully argued by philosopher Neil Levy in his 2011 book, Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press). He focuses on two categories of luck. One, present luck, examines its role in the difference between driving while so drunk that, when coupled with events in the seconds to minutes before, you would have killed someone if they had happened to be crossing the street, and the bad luck of being in that state and actually killing someone.

