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    It is not the case that Indirect harm generates at most a weakened or attenuated claim, insufficient to ground the full normative authority that forgiveness requires to release a wrongdoer from moral accountability.

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    • 1.Indirect harms often cause severe suffering equal to direct harms; denying full accountability based on causal route ignores actual impact.
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    • 2.Wrongfulness depends on violated duties and breach, not causation type; indirect breach still violates moral duties to foreseeable parties.
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    • 3.Multiple indirect victims collectively possess standing equal to direct victims; aggregated claims restore full normative weight for forgiveness.
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    • 1.Moral accountability requires a direct causal link between agent and victim; indirect causation diffuses responsibility across multiple actors.
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    • 2.Forgiveness's normative power derives from the victim's standing to release claims; indirect victims lack the same direct relational standing.
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    • 3.Weakened causal responsibility justifies proportionally weaker remedies; full release from accountability mismatches the degree of harm caused.
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