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    Challenges→One may legitimately resent (and hence consider forgiving) only wrongs done to oneself.

    In close relationships of deep identification—parent and murdered child, for instance—the boundary between victim and proxy collapses sufficiently to ground legitimate forgiveness standing.

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    Proxy(syntactic structure serves as a proxy for provenance and justification)
    Something you use as a stand-in or substitute to measure or represent something else that's harder to observe directly.
    Victim(as used in justice philosophy)
    A person who is harmed, injured, or wronged by someone else's actions.
    boundary collapses(as used in philosophy to describe relationships and identity)
    When a clear distinction or separation between two things becomes blurred or disappears, so they're no longer clearly separate.
    deep identification(as used in ethics and relationships)
    A powerful emotional and psychological bond where two people feel so connected that their identities overlap—like how a parent might feel their child's pain as their own pain.
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    (as used in ethics to determine who can actually forgive whom)
    The genuine right or authority to forgive someone for a wrongdoing—meaning you have valid reasons to be the one offering forgiveness.

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