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    Self-forgiveness is morally appropriate when a wrongdoer'... — Carmelics
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    Self-forgiveness is morally appropriate when a wrongdoer's guilt, shame, or self-loathing reach significantly high levels.

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    • A failure to self-forgive may be detrimental to a wrongdoer's moral and psychological well-being.
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    • 1.Guilt and shame, when proportionate to genuine wrongdoing, serve essential moral functions by maintaining accountability to victims.
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    • 2.Calibrating self-forgiveness to the wrongdoer's subjective distress level privileges the offender's psychological comfort over the victim's moral claims.
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    • 3.A wrongdoer's self-forgiveness granted without victim forgiveness or adequate repair risks cheapening the moral significance of the original wrong.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy argues that premature self-forgiveness can manifest as a form of self-deception that allows wrongdoers to evade genuine moral reckoning.
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    • 2.The intensity of guilt or shame is an unreliable threshold for moral appropriateness, since high distress may reflect psychological fragility rather than genuine moral reform.
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    Nancy Snow (1992) argues that self-forgiveness serves two important self-regarding purposes (though see Hughes 1994). First, it serves the purpose of restoring wrongdoers to full moral agency even in the absence of the victim’s forgiveness. This is similar to Holmgren’s claim (1998) that self-forgiving is a way of restoring or maintaining one’s intrinsic self-worth, which she argues is an extension of her analysis of interpersonal forgiveness. Zenon Szablowinski (2011) concurs, arguing that a failure to self-forgive may be detrimental to a wrongdoer’s moral and psychological well-being, and th...

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