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    It is not the case that Blame cannot essentially implicate interpersonal relationships.

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    • 1.Many cases of wrongdoing involve strangers (e.g., most car thefts, where the victim does not know the criminal).
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    • 2.It still seems possible to blame those with whom we have no standing relationship.
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes like indignation are responses to the quality of will expressed toward *persons as such*, not toward particular relational partners.
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    • 2.If blame tracks moral address to persons qua rational agents, its essential structure is agent-relative to humanity, not to dyadic interpersonal bonds.
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    • 3.Cases of stranger-blame confirm this: we hold car thieves accountable by treating them as members of the moral community, not as participants in our personal relationship.
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    • 1.T.M. Scanlon's buck-passing account grounds blame in the judgment that an agent's will impairs reasons for attitudes—a purely normative relation independent of personal history.
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    • 2.Angela Smith's reasons-responsiveness framework locates blame in rational self-governance, which is a property of agency itself rather than a property of relational standing.
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    • 3.If the constitutive basis of blame is agential rational competence rather than relational connection, interpersonal relationships are at most causal triggers, not essential conditions.
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