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    It is not the case that Strawson's reactive attitudes framework shows blame is constituted by feelings like resentment and indignation, not relational revision intentions.

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    • 1.Blame judgments can be made while explicitly suppressing resentment, suggesting feelings are not constitutive but merely typical accompaniments.
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    • 2.Blame requires accountability standards independent of any individual's emotional states; resentment varies by temperament, not blameworthiness.
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    • 3.Parents blame children while also intending relational revision; Strawson conflates the feeling with distinct communicative and corrective aims.
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    • 1.Blame persists even when we abandon relational intentions, as when we resent historical figures we'll never interact with again.
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    • 2.Reactive attitudes like resentment have phenomenological priority—they arise spontaneously before deliberate relational choices.
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    • 3.People with psychopathy can form relational intentions to modify behavior without experiencing the resentment constitutive of blame.
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