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    Forgiveness does not collapse into condonation. — Carmelics
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    Forgiveness does not collapse into condonation.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • The forgiver must retain disapproval of the wrongdoer's action or the character trait that precipitated it.
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    • 1.Resentment and moral disapproval are functionally inseparable: to fully overcome resentment is to reduce the affective weight of the wrong.
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    • 2.If the affective weight of the wrong is sufficiently reduced, the practical distinction between forgiveness and condonation dissolves at the level of moral response.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy's own account concedes that forgiveness requires overcoming resentment, yet resentment serves as the primary mechanism by which we communicate that a wrong matters morally.
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    • 2.A practice that systematically disarms the communicative function of resentment without equivalent moral protest replicates the social effect of condonation, regardless of the forgiver's internal cognitive state.
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    A practice that systematically disarms the communicative function of resentment ...If the affective weight of the wrong is sufficiently reduced, the practical dist...Jeffrie Murphy's own account concedes that forgiveness requires overcoming resen...Resentment and moral disapproval are functionally inseparable: to fully overcome...
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    We can call the first kind of condoning—the one that involves accepting and not disapproving of conduct—A-condonation. We can call the second kind of condonation—the kind that involves disapproving of but tolerating conduct—D-condonation. A brief discussion can help us to see how each differs from forgiveness.

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