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    It is not the case that There may be similar practices of forgiveness in non-moral arenas of normative appraisal.

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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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    • Forgiveness is not always or necessarily a moral term.
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