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    Todd has indirect standing to forgive Alfred. — Carmelics
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    Todd has indirect standing to forgive Alfred.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • 1.Alfred lied to Betty, and this resulted in Betty being very late in picking up her brother Todd.
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    • 2.Todd was not directly wronged by Alfred, but something Alfred did to Betty led to Todd's being wronged indirectly.
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    • 3.It would be fitting for Todd to blame Alfred, and for Alfred to apologize to Todd.
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    • 1.Forgiveness is essentially the overcoming of resentment, and resentment is properly directed only at wrongs done to oneself as a victim (Butler, Strawson).
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    • 2.Todd's grievance against Alfred is derivative of Betty's wrong, making Todd's emotional response indignation or moral protest, not resentment proper.
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    • 3.Without genuine resentment as its object, what Todd offers Alfred cannot constitute forgiveness but rather something closer to excusing or condoning.
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    • 1.Standing to forgive is grounded in the particular authority that victims possess over their own moral claims against wrongdoers (Hieronymi, Pettigrove).
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    • 2.Indirect harm generates at most a weakened or attenuated claim, insufficient to ground the full normative authority that forgiveness requires to release a wrongdoer from moral accountability.
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    On this view, only those who have been directly wronged have standing to forgive. Suppose Alfred lies to Betty. Betty is thereby directly wronged by Alfred. Though we will not attempt a full account of what it means to be directly wronged by someone, the general idea is that for Betty to be directly wronged by Alfred means that Alfred’s conduct itself constituted a wrong against Betty; he failed Betty, morally speaking. Betty therefore has direct standing to forgive.

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