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    Challenges→Forgiveness does not collapse into condonation.

    Jeffrie Murphy's own account concedes that forgiveness requires overcoming resentment, yet resentment serves as the primary mechanism by which we communicate that a wrong matters morally.

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    Forgiveness(as used in ethics)
    The act of letting go of anger or resentment toward someone who has hurt you, and choosing not to hold their wrongdoing against them anymore.
    Jeffrie Murphy(as the philosopher whose theory is being discussed)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in ethics, particularly emotions like resentment, forgiveness, and moral anger.
    Moral (or morally)(as in 'a wrong matters morally' meaning the wrongdoing involves ethical principles)
    Relating to what is right and wrong, or concerning principles about how people should treat each other.
    primary mechanism(Bechtel's distinction in the context of cancer mechanisms)
    A type of mechanism associated with a biological function such as apoptosis, distinguished from control mechanisms.
    resentment

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    (Proposed within the no-priority view discussion of wrongness)
    A specific form of anger conceptually restricted to cases that are founded on moral reasons, particularly wrongness.

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