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    It is not the case that One may legitimately resent (and hence consider forgiving) only wrongs done to oneself.

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    • 1.Third-party moral emotions like indignation are legitimate responses to wrongs done to others, and forgiveness is the overcoming of such emotions.
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    • 2.If a bystander's indignation at a wrong done to another is morally appropriate, then forgiving that wrong by overcoming that indignation is equally appropriate.
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    • 3.Jeffrie Murphy's own account of resentment as a self-regarding emotion does not preclude a structurally parallel account of other-regarding moral anger that grounds third-party forgiveness.
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    • 1.The victim's exclusive standing to forgive presupposes a sharp moral boundary between self and other that communitarian and care ethics traditions have shown to be philosophically contestable.
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    • 2.In close relationships of deep identification—parent and murdered child, for instance—the boundary between victim and proxy collapses sufficiently to ground legitimate forgiveness standing.
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    • 3.Charles Griswold and Margaret Walker both acknowledge that inherited or representative forgiveness occurs in recognized moral practices, suggesting the strict victim-only condition is descriptively and normatively inadequate.
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    • 1.One does not have standing to resent or forgive someone unless one has been the victim of that person's wrongdoing.
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    • 2.It would be ludicrous to claim to forgive Hitler for what he did to the Jews if one was not a victim of those wrongs.
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    • 3.One may forgive someone for embezzling one's own funds because one is the victim in that case.
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