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    It is not the case that Justification and forgiveness are distinct moral concepts and ought to be distinguished.

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    • 1.On some virtue-ethics accounts (e.g., Aristotle's equity), showing mercy just is the correct moral response when strict rules produce unjust outcomes.
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    • 2.If merciful forbearance constitutes the morally appropriate act in context, then the forgiver is not waiving a legitimate moral claim but acting justifiably.
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    • 3.When an act is the morally correct response to a situation, the distinction between justification and forgiveness collapses into a single moral judgment.
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    • 1.Charles Griswold and Margaret Walker both argue that genuine forgiveness requires a revised moral appraisal of the wrongdoer's character, not merely the act.
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    • 2.If forgiveness entails revising one's moral assessment of the agent (e.g., seeing them as no longer blameworthy), then forgiveness partially vindicates the person, overlapping with justification's exculpatory function.
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    • 3.Concepts that share the same normative upshot—removing or diminishing blameworthiness—cannot be cleanly distinguished as categorically distinct moral operations.
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    • 1.When conduct is justified, this implies that the conduct was not morally wrong.
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    • 2.When conduct is forgiven, there is no implication that the conduct was not morally wrong; indeed, in most cases what we are forgiven for are the morally wrong things we do.
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