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    It is not the case that Fittingness is distinct from moral or strategic appropriateness

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    • 1.Aristotle's account of proper emotional response in the Nicomachean Ethics treats fittingness as constitutively involving moral considerations about what a virtuous person would feel.
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    • 2.If the virtuous person serves as the standard for fitting emotional response, then amusement at a sexist joke fails the fittingness criterion on the same grounds it fails the moral one.
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    • 1.D'Arms and Jacobson's own 'moralist' opponents argue that moral facts about an object partially constitute the aesthetic object being evaluated, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 2.If the sexist content of a joke is part of what makes it the joke it is, then amusement at that content is not fitting because the joke as a whole is not genuinely funny but merely cruel.
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    • 1.Amusement at a funny joke may be fitting even if the joke has sexist content that makes the amusement morally inappropriate
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    • 2.Amusement at a funny joke may be fitting even if expressing amusement is costly to self-interest because observers may form a negative opinion of the amused agent
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