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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Forgiving without settled guilt judgments risks enabling actual wrongdoers to escape accountability.
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    • 2.Epistemic responsibility requires agents to form justified beliefs about wrongdoing before moral responses.
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    • 3.Decoupling forgiveness from guilt determinations conflates forgiving persons with forgiving actions that may not have occurred.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Moral agents frequently operate with incomplete information about others' intentions and circumstances.
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    • 2.Requiring certainty about guilt before forgiving would paralyze reconciliation in most real relationships.
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    • 3.Forgiveness is fundamentally about releasing resentment, which doesn't logically require proven culpability.
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