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    It can be offensive when someone says that she forgives y... — Carmelics
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    It can be offensive when someone says that she forgives you when you have done nothing wrong.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • 1.Forgiveness typically applies to morally wrong actions.
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    • 2.If you have done nothing wrong, offering forgiveness inappropriately implies that you did something morally wrong.
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    • 1.Forgiveness can function as an expression of grace or goodwill that releases relational tension, independent of actual moral wrongdoing.
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    • 2.If forgiveness serves a relational rather than purely retributive function, its appropriateness need not hinge on confirmed culpability.
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    • 3.Bishop Butler's account treats forgiveness as foreswearing resentment, which can arise from perceived slights regardless of actual wrongdoing.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy acknowledges that mistaken perceptions of wrongdoing are common, and forgiving under uncertainty need not entail a settled judgment of guilt.
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    • 2.An offer of forgiveness under genuine epistemic uncertainty about wrongdoing expresses humility, not accusation, and thus need not be offensive.
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    An offer of forgiveness under genuine epistemic uncertainty about wrongdoing exp...Bishop Butler's account treats forgiveness as foreswearing resentment, which can...Forgiveness can function as an expression of grace or goodwill that releases rel...Forgiveness typically applies to morally wrong actions.
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    If forgiveness serves a relational rather than purely retributive function, its ...If you have done nothing wrong, offering forgiveness inappropriately implies tha...Jeffrie Murphy acknowledges that mistaken perceptions of wrongdoing are common, ...

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    SEP: forgiveness
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    Sometimes we do things that appear to be morally wrong. Suppose I see you, a total stranger, take a pear from a fruit stand and walk off with it. I reproach you for having stolen the pear into which you are now happily chomping. Yet you explain that you own that fruit stand and have not stolen anything. In giving this kind of explanation, you are offering a justification for your action—you are claiming that despite appearances to the contrary, your taking the pear was morally permissible. Offering justifications is commonplace in our moral lives. But justification and forgiveness ought to be ...
    Extraction notes

    Validity: The passage states that what we are forgiven for are morally wrong things, and explicitly concludes that forgiveness offered when nothing wrong was done can be offensive, so both the logical support and the argument's presence in the passage are confirmed.

    Confidence: The reasoning is clearly entailed by the text's discussion of forgiveness presupposing wrongdoing.

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