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    It is not the case that In order to forgive, one must overcome both hostile retributive feelings and moral anger (moderate emotionalism).

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    • 1.Moral anger (resentment) can persist after genuine forgiveness, as Bishop Butler distinguished forgiving a person from ceasing all indignation at their act.
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    • 2.Retaining measured moral anger at a wrong is compatible with full reconciliation and goodwill toward the wrongdoer, which are the hallmarks of forgiveness.
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    • 3.Requiring the elimination of moral anger conflates forgiving the person with condoning or excusing the wrongful act itself.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.On Jeffrie Murphy's account, some residual resentment after forgiveness is not only permissible but morally appropriate as a sign of self-respect.
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    • 2.If forgiveness required total elimination of moral anger, self-respecting victims would be morally prohibited from forgiving, which is an implausible constraint on the practice.
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    • 1.Overcoming hostile feelings alone is not enough for forgiveness.
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    • 2.One may harbor moral anger towards a wrongdoer without thereby wishing that she suffers for what she did.
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    • 3.Both moral anger and hostile feelings must be given up in order to forgive.
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