If blame's aversive emotional texture is theoretically excised, the resulting account loses explanatory purchase over why blame motivates behavioral change in ways that mere moral assessment does not.

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aversive emotional texture(as used in philosophy of emotion): The unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling associated with something—in this case, the sting or pain you feel when someone blames you.
blame(Scanlon's contractualist account): A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.
explanatory purchase(philosophy of cognitive science / teleosemantics): The capacity of representational properties to play a genuine explanatory role in accounting for a system's behavior or function
moral assessment(Used to argue that freedom is a necessary condition for being subject to praise or blame, including the assessment 'perfectly good'): The evaluation of an agent's behavior as morally good or bad, which presupposes that the agent acted freely

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