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Winch on Moral Dilemmas and Moral Modality

“…Little ween the snug card players of the responsibilities of the sleepless man on the bridge''. 12 As Winch is well aware, it is difficult to imagine the ''responsibilities of the sleepless man on the bridge'', and therefore difficult to make judgments about his decisions. But note that the principal difficulty in imagining Vere's position that Melville suggests above is that Vere, unlike you or I, has to act on his decision.…”