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    The belief-desire pair Sher identifies with blame can be present without blame.

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    • 1.Gary Watson's distinction between the valuational and volitional systems shows that moral attitudes require reactive emotional engagement, not mere belief-desire pairs.
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    • 2.P.F. Strawson's account in 'Freedom and Resentment' establishes that blame is constituted by reactive attitudes like indignation, which are phenomenologically distinct from cold belief-desire states.
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    • 3.A mother shielding her son from blame while holding the relevant belief-desire pair demonstrates that the cognitive-conative structure Sher identifies is insufficient to generate the participant stance blame requires.
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    • 1.Angela Smith's accountability-based account entails that blame involves a demand for reasons-responsiveness that a bare belief-desire pair neither expresses nor conveys.
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    • 2.T.M. Scanlon's blame-as-relationship-revision account requires that the blamer revise their relational attitudes toward the target, a transformation the belief-desire pair alone cannot constitute.
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    • In some cases, such as the reactions of a mother whose son is blameworthy for a crime, the relevant belief-desire pair might be present without blame.
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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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