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    It is not the case that Premature forgiveness (forgiveness absent the required process) may be incompatible with the victim's self-respect and therefore inappropriate.

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    • 1.Bishop Butler and Jeffrie Murphy distinguish forgiveness as an internal attitude-change from external expressions, making process requirements category errors.
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    • 2.Self-respect is constituted by one's standing as a moral agent, not by adhering to any particular temporal sequence of emotional processing.
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    • 3.A victim who forgives swiftly from a position of secure self-worth demonstrates, rather than undermines, the autonomy that grounds self-respect.
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    • 1.Margaret Walker and Charles Griswold both acknowledge that imposing normative scripts on victims risks re-subordinating them to external demands about how to manage their own moral responses.
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    • 2.Prescribing six mandatory elements transforms forgiveness from a sovereign exercise of the victim's will into a compliance requirement, which itself violates self-respect.
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    • 1.Whether one's forgiveness is self-respecting depends wholly on whether the victim herself goes through a certain kind of process.
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    • 2.The required process involves six elements: recovering self-esteem, fully appreciating the nature and wrongness of the wrongdoing, acknowledging feelings of anger and grief as basic and legitimate, not withholding what she needs to say or express to the wrongdoer, reassessing the nature of her relationship with the wrongdoer, and determining whether to seek restitution.
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