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    It is not the case that Reactive emotions are not superfluous add-ons to the judgment involved in blame.

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    • 1.R.M. Hare's prescriptivism holds that moral judgments carry their action-guiding force through universal prescriptive meaning, not affective states.
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    • 2.If the expressive significance of blame is fully captured by the illocutionary force of the judgment itself, reactive emotions add no constitutive content.
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    • 3.Therefore, emotions may be contingent psychological accompaniments to blame rather than components that alter its normative meaning.
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    • 1.Angela Smith and T.M. Scanlon's reasons-based accounts locate blame's essential nature in the revision of one's relationship-governing attitudes, not in felt emotional responses.
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    • 2.Psychologically detached agents who form the relevant revised attitudes toward a wrongdoer have thereby blamed, even absent reactive emotion.
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    • 3.If blame is complete without the emotion, the emotion cannot be constitutive of blame's expressive significance but is instead an optional affective expression of it.
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    • 1.Reactive emotions change the meaning of the judgment.
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    • 2.Reactive emotions imbue the judgment with expressive significance characteristic of blame.
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    • 3.A mere judgment would otherwise lack this expressive significance.
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