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    It is not the case that Blamers must not jump to conclusions about wrongdoing

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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes (resentment, indignation) are constitutive of moral relationships, not derivative of prior epistemic certainty.
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    • 2.Requiring full epistemic warrant before blame would pathologically suspend the affective responses that ground moral community itself.
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    • 1.Angela Smith argues that blame tracks reasons-responsiveness, which can be publicly observable through action patterns without requiring access to opaque mental states.
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    • 2.If blameworthiness is grounded in objective reasons rather than subjective intentions, the opacity of mind is not a decisive barrier to warranted blame.
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    • Even without accepting Rosen's full skeptical conclusion, the opacity of mind makes judgments of blameworthiness difficult
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