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Whether forgiveness is compatible with self-respect does not depend on the actions or attitudes of the wrongdoer.

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Whether one's forgiveness is self-respecting depends wholly on whether the victim herself goes through a certain kind of process.
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1.Self-respect requires that one's responses to wrongdoing track the actual moral status of one's relationship with the wrongdoer.
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2.The wrongdoer's actions and attitudes partly constitute the moral status of that relationship.
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3.Therefore, whether forgiveness coheres with self-respect cannot be determined independently of what the wrongdoer has done or how they regard their victim.
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1.Jeffrie Murphy argues that forgiving an unrepentant wrongdoer who shows contempt for one's moral worth constitutes a failure of self-respect.
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2.If the wrongdoer's attitudes toward the victim's standing are morally relevant to whether forgiveness is warranted, then those attitudes bear on whether forgiveness is self-respecting.
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Finally, consider third-party standing. What is labeled “third-party” forgiveness in the forgiveness literature is often a source of confusion. Charles Griswold rightly points out that some kinds of cases of standing are misleadingly called “third-party”. For example, he asks us to imagine a case in which the murder of a loved one injures us, and the matter of whether to forgive presents itself to us in light of the loss we’ve sustained. “This sort of case”, he says, “is not a matter of third-party forgiveness” (2007: 117). The standing to forgive that would accrue to such a person, Griswold s...

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