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    It is not the case that Forgiving is not equivalent to excusing.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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