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    It is not the case that We can plausibly say that the victim has forgiven her offender when she first overcomes her resentment towards him.

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    • 1.Forgiveness is a normative act requiring the forswearing of resentment, not merely its causal overcoming through time or distraction.
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    • 2.A victim who loses resentment through indifference, medication, or forgetting has not forgiven, since no commitment to the offender's moral standing has been made.
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    • 3.Jeffrie Murphy's work establishes that genuine forgiveness requires retaining the capacity for resentment while consciously choosing to relinquish it on moral grounds.
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    • 1.Charles Griswold argues forgiveness is an essentially bilateral process requiring the offender's acknowledgment, repentance, and changed self-narrative.
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    • 2.Unilateral overcoming of resentment, without any corresponding transformation in the offender-victim relationship, constitutes at most self-therapeutic release, not forgiveness proper.
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    • 3.Collapsing forgiveness into the victim's internal state alone severs it from the interpersonal moral framework that gives the practice its distinctive normative significance.
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    • 1.By overcoming her negative feelings at the time she forgives, the victim does not necessarily eliminate these feelings without a trace; they may recur from time to time throughout her life.
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    • 2.Once she has determined that forgiveness is the appropriate attitude towards her offender and has overcome her negative feelings towards him, it will presumably be possible for her to conquer these feelings again if they do recur.
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