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    Not all acts of forgiveness have positive moral status; c... — Carmelics
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    Supports→For an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, the victim must meet certain conditions, most importantly having the right kind of motivating reasons for forgiving.

    Not all acts of forgiveness have positive moral status; conditions on the victim's reasons must be met.

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    What about the morality of individual acts of forgiveness? Let us use “positive moral status” as an umbrella term to capture the status of an instance of forgiveness insofar as it is morally good, morally virtuous, morally permissible, morally praiseworthy, morally right, morally obligatory, or morally supererogatory. It is commonplace to think that in order for an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, certain kinds of conditions must be met. Conditionalism is the view that in order for an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, certain conditions must be met either by th...

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