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    It is not the case that Third-party forgiveness requires that the forgiver has standing, which is obtained through 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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    • 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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