 FSCs are philosophical thought-experiments, often involving science fiction and covert figures with mysterious powers and unlikely obsessions. The growing literature on FSCs continues this pattern (for a sampling, see Widerker &amp; McKenna 2003). As the cases get increasingly “strange and esoteric” (Kane 2007: 168), achieving “dizzying degrees of development” (Speak 2002: 98), we might start to wonder whether we’ve lost sight of the goal, which is to understand concepts originating, not in philosophical fantasy, but in everyday life and ordinary circumstances. However things look in the distant possible worlds of FSCs, our natural practices and judgments of moral responsibility require alternatives.