Constitutive Luck is a concept in moral philosophy of the luck (good or bad) of being born as who you are. This includes your particular race, gender, genes, family, country, culture, etc.
Constitutive Luck is a tricky problem in everything from meta-ethics to morality to applied ethics and the law. The question is how much to reward or punish someone responsible for acts that can be ultimately and substantially traced back to their constitutive luck.
(Source: plato.stanford.edu)
