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    Third-party forgiveness requires that the forgiver has st... — Carmelics
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    Third-party forgiveness requires that the forgiver has standing, which is obtained through identification with the victim.

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    • 1.In order to engage in third-party forgiveness, the forgiver can only do so if she has standing.
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    • 2.One receives such standing only if one has an identification with the victim.
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    • 1.Moral standing to forgive can derive from membership in a moral community affected by wrongdoing, not merely personal identification with victims.
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    • 2.Jeffrie Murphy's victim-centered account leaves no principled basis for excluding communal or civic forms of forgiveness following public atrocities.
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    • 3.Historical practices like South Africa's TRC treated collective forgiveness as legitimate without requiring individual identificatory bonds.
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    • 1.Margaret Walker argues forgiveness functions as a form of moral repair that restores normative relationships, grounding standing in relational harm rather than identification.
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    • 2.If wrongdoing damages shared moral norms binding all members of a community, any party to those norms acquires standing independent of victim-identification.
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    Yet because Griswold has in mind an activity that involves forgiving “on behalf” of the victim, this kind of standing to forgive might be best thought of as proxy standing. Indeed, he argues that in order to engage in what he calls third-party forgiveness, the forgiver can only do so if she has “standing”, and one receives such standing only if one has an “identification with the victim” (119).

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