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    It is not the case that The belief-desire pair Sher identifies with blame can be present without blame.

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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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    • 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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