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    It is not the case that Forgiveness and excuse are distinct concepts.

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    • 1.On Strawson's reactive attitudes account, both forgiveness and excuse involve modifying the stance of resentment toward an offender.
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    • 2.If forgiveness and excuse both achieve the same moral psychological endpoint—the relinquishment of resentment—their conceptual distinctness reduces to a difference of degree, not kind.
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    • 3.A difference of causal pathway to identical moral psychological outcomes does not establish that two concepts are categorically distinct rather than subspecies of a single genus.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy and Charles Griswold acknowledge that partial excuses (diminished capacity, coercion) attenuate but do not eliminate moral responsibility.
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    • 2.When responsibility is only partially mitigated, forgiveness and partial excuse operate on the same residual blameworthy agency simultaneously, making their boundary indeterminate rather than sharp.
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    • 3.Conceptual distinctness requires a principled boundary, and the existence of a continuous spectrum of responsibility-mitigating conditions dissolves any such sharp boundary between excuse and forgiveness.
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    • 1.When conduct is excused, the agent is not morally responsible and blameworthy for that conduct.
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    • 2.When one is forgiven for one's conduct, this does not entail that the wrongdoer was not morally responsible and blameworthy.
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    • 3.Forgiven agents can be morally responsible and blameworthy, but agents who are excused are not morally responsible and blameworthy.
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