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    The objection that deserving requires an appraising attit... — Carmelics
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    The objection that deserving requires an appraising attitude fails if pity or compassion counts as an appraising attitude.

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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes framework classifies pity as a participant stance response that tracks the moral significance of another's condition.
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    • 2.An attitude that tracks moral significance and motivates fitting responses meets the functional criteria for an appraising attitude, regardless of valence.
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    • 3.Therefore, pity directed at a sick child constitutes an appraising attitude in Strawson's sense, satisfying the desert claim's requirement.
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    • 1.Aristotle distinguishes eleos (pity) as a rational emotion that evaluates undeserved suffering, making it inherently appraisal-laden in the Nicomachean Ethics.
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    • 2.If pity involves a judgment that suffering is undeserved or disproportionate, it presupposes an evaluative standard against which the subject's condition is assessed.
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    • 3.An emotion constitutively involving such normative judgment is an appraising attitude by any plausible definition, circumventing the objection's assumption that only favorable/unfavorable attitudes qualify.
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    • 1.The objection that some cases of desert lack a fitting appraising attitude is a genuine difficulty only if every appraising attitude is either favorable or unfavorable.
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    • 2.Pity and compassion are appraising attitudes that are neither straightforwardly favorable nor unfavorable in the relevant sense.
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    • 3.If pity or compassion is an appraising attitude, then the case of the sick child does involve a fitting appraising attitude.
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    Furthermore, it appears that there are cases in which a person deserves something but in which no appraising attitude seems to be fitting. Suppose, for example, that an abandoned child is in need of medical care and nurturance. The fact that the child is sick does not make it appropriate for onlookers to admire her or to condemn her. It does not call for any “positive” or “negative” appraising attitude. Nevertheless, the claim that the child deserves medical care and nurturance in virtue of her
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