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    It is not the case that Sher's theory of blame is inadequate because it is too sanitized.

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    • Sher's theory compromises psychological realism by stripping away blame's unsavory features.
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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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