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    It is not the case that The objection that deserving requires an appraising attitude fails if pity or compassion counts as an appraising attitude.

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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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    • 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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