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    A wrongdoer's self-forgiveness granted without victim for... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Self-forgiveness is morally appropriate when a wrongdoer's guilt, shame, or self-loathing reach significantly high levels.

    A wrongdoer's self-forgiveness granted without victim forgiveness or adequate repair risks cheapening the moral significance of the original wrong.

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    • 1.Moral wrongs create debts to victims whose standing to forgive is uniquely authoritative over the harm they suffered.
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    • 2.Self-forgiveness without victim acknowledgment allows wrongdoers to escape the discomfort that motivates genuine behavioral change.
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    • 3.Treating wrongs as fully resolved through internal redemption alone ignores that wrongs damage social trust requiring external repair.
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    • 1.Self-forgiveness addresses the wrongdoer's capacity for self-respect and moral agency, which victim forgiveness cannot fully determine.
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    • 2.Victims may withhold forgiveness indefinitely regardless of repair efforts, making moral progress dependent on another's grace alone.
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    • 3.Some harms occur when victims cannot be identified, reached, or harmed parties are deceased, yet moral growth remains possible and valuable.
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