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“Constitutive moral luck occurs whenever forces beyond your control have shaped 'the kind of person you are, where this is not just a question of what you deliberately do, but of your inclinations, capacities, and temperament'.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“Circumstantial moral luck is 'luck in one’s circumstances - the kind of problems and situations one faces'.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“When Coin proposes a new Hunger Games, the significance of her name becomes crystal clear: she may be female to Snow’s male, but they’re two sides of the same coin.”
― Jessica Miller

“this care perspective has historically been unrecognized or devalued by male philosophers and psychologists because it was linked to women’s care-based responsibilities.”
― Lindsey Issow Averill

“for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity”
― Brian McDonald

“for Capitol residents, being a real person means a kind of birdlike flight, freed from any kind of gravity - aesthetic, ethical, or relational - an effortless flapping of weightless wings on the way forward toward the always receding and ever more lurid 'final word in entertainment'.”
― Brian McDonald

“In the second book of his great autobiographical word, Confessions, Augustine fretted at length over a childish act of vandalism that he committed long ago with some teenage friends; he was now struggling to understand the motive behind an action that seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever. He concluded that he broke the law for no other reason than the thrill of breaking it, experiencing a rush he calls a 'deceptive sense of omnipotence.'

By this phrase he meant that such gratuitous lawbreaking provides the illusion of being as free from the restraints of the moral law as is God, who must be imagined as both creating the moral law and existing outside it. But Augustine went on to say that this attempt to be a god is really only a 'perverse and vicious imitation' of the real deity, not only because it’s so obviously an illusion but also because the very attempt to be like God tacitly concedes that God is a superior model to be imitated.”
― Brian McDonald

“Consider Haymitch Abernathy, staggering through life in a nearly constant alcoholic fog. His inebriation is so incapacitating that it has probably compromised his ability to be an effective mentor to District 12’s tributes on many occasions. In fact, Katniss suspects that Haymitch’s alcoholism may have cost some of her predecessors their lives. 'No wonder the District 12 tributes never stand a chance,' she reflects while watching Haymitch drink himself into a stupor on the train to the Capitol. 'It isn’t just that we’ve been underfed and lack training. Some of our tributes have still been strong enough to make a go of it. But we rarely get sponsors and he’s a big part of the reason why.' But as justified as Katniss’s anger at Haymitch may be, we know that he didn’t choose to be this drunken wreck of a man. His character was shaped by a cruel twist of fate: his name being drawn in the 50th Hunger Games when he was still a boy. Morally, he never stood a chance.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“What she seems to fear most is not that Rue will be killed by some other tribute, but rather that she and Rue will face each other as the last two survivors in the Games, forcing Katniss to sacrifice her erstwhile ally for the sake of a promise to her sister. As horrible as it sounds, Rue’s death at the hands of Marvel was good moral luck for Katniss.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“Causal moral luck is 'luck in how one is determined by antecedent circumstances.'... we don't make our moral choices in a vacuum.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“resultant moral luck, which is 'luck in the way one’s actions and projects turn out'.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“she doesn’t feel comfortable abandoning the pretense of their love affair, even in private.”
― Jennifer Culver

“from a scientific point of view, there’s no goal for evolution, so there can be no 'failure' of selection.”
― Abigail Mann

“Gilligan pointed out that because the care perspective is more typical of women, the belief of many philosophers and psychologists that the only valid approach to moral reasoning is the justice perspective often allowed them to question or undermine women’s moral reasoning ability.”
― Lindsey Issow Averill

“Haymitch Abernathy and the alcohol addiction that is his response to the sustained emotional trauma of having to mentor two new tributes each year who will die in the arena”
― Lindsey Issow Averill

“[Katniss'] authenticity got the best of her”
― Dereck Coatney

“The state of nature provides a standard for judging civil society, but not a practical and generally applicable prescription for reform.”
― Roger Masters

“It’s in fretting about how to keep abreast of constantly fluctuating fashions - such as whether feathers or beads are the best way to put one’s own spin on a new trend - that the hungers of the Capitol citizens for belonging, for meaning, and for self-expression are expressed.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“hunger plays a crucial role in the lives of the Capitol citizens: they organize their lives around satisfying their complex desires just as surely as Katniss and Gale Hawthorne have organized their lives around satisfying their more basic hungers and keeping their families from starvation.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“The citizens’ efforts to keep up with constantly changing styles (such as stenciled cheekbones and gem-studded collarbones) transform them into 'docile bodies': 'bodies whose forces and energies are,' in the words of feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, 'habituated to external regulation, subjection, transformation, "improvement"'.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“In sharp contrast with Katniss, who’s constantly thinking about how her actions will impact others - her family and her community - and who’s determined to protect her sister and her mother, the prep team’s docile self-focus means that the stylists experience even the televised horrors of the Hunger Games in personal terms: '"I was still in bed!" "I had just had my eyebrows dyed!" "I swear I nearly fainted!" Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena'.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“All of this self-centered preoccupation with their bodies actually reinforces the power of the Capitol over its citizens - and the rest of Panem.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“In the Capitol, the citizens unthinkingly participate in the political system largely because they’re distracted; their attention is diverted from politics onto self-centered desires. In District 13, the citizens unthinkingly participate in the political system because of deeply ingrained habits formed through their continual obedience to the myriad rules and regulations imposed by President Coin. The effects of this constant compliance are gradual, cumulative, and dramatic.”
― Christina Van Dyke

“Foucault’s description of an eighteenth-century soldier is also an accurate portrait of the typical citizen of District 13. The District 13 citizen is 'something that can be made; out of a formless clay, an inapt body, the machine required can be constructed; posture is gradually corrected; a calculated constraint runs slowly through each part of the body, mastering it, making it pliable, ready at all times, turning silently into the automatism of habit.' If you enact this process on the scale of a whole society, you get a populace that literally embodies obedience.”
― Christina Van Dyke