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    It is not the case that Jeffrie Murphy's victim-centered account leaves no principled basis for excluding communal or civic forms of forgiveness following public atrocities.

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    • 1.Murphy's victim-centered account specifically privileges individual victim authority; communal forgiveness risks diluting or democratizing what should remain victim-controlled.
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    • 2.Collective forgiveness processes may instrumentalize individual victims' suffering for social cohesion, conflating their distinct interests with group reconciliation needs.
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    • 3.Without principled exclusions, Murphy's framework collapses the distinction between respecting victims and legitimizing forgiveness that bypasses their actual consent.
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    • 1.Victims in atrocities are often embedded in communities whose healing depends on collective reconciliation processes, not just individual forgiveness.
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    • 2.Murphy's framework focuses on victim agency and dignity; communal forgiveness, when victim-inclusive, respects rather than overrides individual victim perspectives.
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    • 3.Public atrocities create shared trauma and fractured civic bonds that only collective practices can adequately address without abandoning victim concerns.
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