Implicit vs Explicit Effects

We often differentiate between implicit and explicit effects in life. Implicit effects are things that happen for which nobody is directly responsible. Explicit effects are those we determine to have a responsible body.

I suggest that implicit and explicit effects should not be treated differently. Not only because it is not a morally valuable differentiation (see discussions of Free Will, and Friendly Utilitarianism|Moral Love), but also because we often wrongly differentiate direct and indirect causality.

Rather, we should focus on minimizing negative effects and maximizing positive effects, regardless of their causal chain.

One example of this kind of thinking is the desire expressed in ../../private/The Color of Law that De juris and de facto segregation are not worth differentiating.