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    Forgiving is not equivalent to excusing. — Carmelics
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    Forgiving is not equivalent to excusing.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • For wrongdoing that is excused entirely, there is nothing to forgive, since agents who are fully excused are not blameworthy or culpable.
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    • 1.On Jeffrie Murphy's Humean-influenced account, resentment that persists even after an excuse is accepted reveals that excusing and forgiving address the same emotional target.
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    • 2.If both excusing and forgiving function to overcome the same resentment toward the same agent for the same act, the psychological mechanism underlying each is identical.
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    • 3.Two acts that share the same object, the same affective target, and the same psychological mechanism are not meaningfully distinct kinds of moral response.
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    • 1.Excusing and forgiving differ in degree rather than kind: partial excuses reduce but do not eliminate blameworthiness, blurring any sharp conceptual boundary.
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    • 2.If partial excuses occupy a continuum with full excuses, then forgiving the residual blame after a partial excuse is indistinguishable in structure from the excusing act itself.
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    The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘forgivable’, the first entry under the general term ‘forgive’, as that which “may be forgiven, pardonable, excusable”, referring thereby to the quality of deserving to be forgiven. Notwithstanding the association with excusing conditions, forgiving is not, strictly speaking, equivalent to excusing. For wrongdoing that is excused entirely, there is nothing to forgive, since (as we shall see) agents who are fully excused are not blameworthy or culpable. Moreover, the application of the concept of forgiveness to non-moral behavior, as in the case of a forgiv...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states "forgiving is not, strictly speaking, equivalent to excusing" and directly supports this with the premise that fully excused wrongdoing leaves nothing to forgive because such agents are not blameworthy.

    Confidence: Clearly stated argument distinguishing forgiveness from excusing.

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