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    There may be similar practices of forgiveness in non-mora... — Carmelics
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    There may be similar practices of forgiveness in non-moral arenas of normative appraisal.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
    Overall Strength:80%
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    • Forgiveness is not always or necessarily a moral term.
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    • 1.Forgiveness is constitutively tied to moral injury: it presupposes a violation of moral standing, not merely normative deviation.
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    • 2.Non-moral normative arenas (aesthetic, prudential, epistemic) lack the reactive attitudes—resentment, indignation—that forgiveness is specifically designed to overcome.
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    • 3.Without the moral reactive attitudes as its target, any analogous practice would be mere excusing or tolerance, not genuine forgiveness.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's account grounds forgiveness in the participant stance toward persons as morally responsible agents, not in general norm-violation.
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    • 2.Extending forgiveness to non-moral arenas dilutes the concept to the point where it loses its distinctive normative and interpersonal significance.
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    The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘forgivable’, the first entry under the general term ‘forgive’, as that which “may be forgiven, pardonable, excusable”, referring thereby to the quality of deserving to be forgiven. Notwithstanding the association with excusing conditions, forgiving is not, strictly speaking, equivalent to excusing. For wrongdoing that is excused entirely, there is nothing to forgive, since (as we shall see) agents who are fully excused are not blameworthy or culpable. Moreover, the application of the concept of forgiveness to non-moral behavior, as in the case of a forgiv...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that the application of forgiveness to non-moral behavior shows it is not necessarily a moral term, and then uses "For this reason" to connect that premise directly to the conclusion about similar practices in non-moral arenas.

    Confidence: Explicitly stated as following from the previous point.

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