Charles Griswold and Margaret Walker both acknowledge that inherited or representative forgiveness occurs in recognized moral practices, suggesting the strict victim-only condition is descriptively and normatively inadequate.
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Normatively inadequate(as a criticism of the victim-only rule)
Fails to capture how things should work according to good moral reasoning and values.
Representative forgiveness(as a type of forgiveness practice)
When one person or institution forgives on behalf of others who were wronged, such as a government formally apologizing for historical injustices done to a group.
Victim-only condition(as a limitation being criticized)
The strict rule that only the person who was directly harmed has the authority to forgive the wrongdoer.
descriptively inadequate(criticizing the claim that Junior's action is 'harmless')
A description that fails to accurately capture what's actually happening or all the relevant facts of a situation.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.