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    Sher's theory of blame is inadequate because it is too sanitized.

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    • 1.Blame paradigmatically involves reactive attitudes like indignation and resentment, which Strawson showed are constitutive of moral responsibility practices.
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    • 2.Sher's belief-desire model reduces blame to a cognitive-conative state, systematically excluding the affective phenomenology that distinguishes genuine blame from mere moral judgment.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot account for the felt quality of blame as experienced by both blamer and blamed fails to capture the interpersonal significance that grounds accountability.
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    • 1.Macalester Bell's work demonstrates that the hard feelings internal to blame serve irreplaceable communicative and relationship-defining functions that purely cognitive accounts cannot replicate.
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    • 2.If blame's aversive emotional texture is theoretically excised, the resulting account loses explanatory purchase over why blame motivates behavioral change in ways that mere moral assessment does not.
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    • Sher's theory compromises psychological realism by stripping away blame's unsavory features.
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    A second objection to Sher’s view is due to Angela Smith (2008). Smith rejects Sher’s claim that a desire component is part of what constitutes an attitude as blame. To defend this, she invites us to consider an ordinary case of blame, say the blame we feel for a politician who leads us into a disastrous war. While we no doubt desire that the politician hadn’t led us into the war because we are generally committed to morality (and we therefore don’t enjoy the suffering of innocents), it is not c
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