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    It is not the case that Forgiveness does not collapse into condonation.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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