Restricting moral status to motivationally 'pure' forgiveness conflates the ethics of forgiveness with virtue ethics about the forgiver's character, which are distinct evaluative domains.
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An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
moral status(Contrasted with interest-based accounts of moral weight)
A notion used to account for differing moral obligations to beings, which some philosophers regard as unnecessary if moral weight is instead accorded in proportion to the strength of interests.