Assertion: forgiveness | /r/HasProperty | appropriate
Facets:
value: morally
type: DEGREE
value: for all offenses, including genocide
type: OTHER
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: regardless of
type: OTHER
value: towards her offender
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Zenon Szablowinski (2011) concurs, arguing that a failure to self-forgive may be detrimental to a wrongdoer’s moral and psychological well-being, and that such forgiveness is morally appropriate when a wrongdoer’s guilt, shame, or self-loathing reach significantly high levels.
text: For Haber, then, it seems that unless the wrongdoer repents and the victim forgives her (at least in part) for this reason, then that forgiveness is morally inappropriate.
text: However, 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.
text: forgiveness is always appropriate and desirable from a moral point of view, regardless of whether the wrongdoer repents and regardless of what [the wrongdoer] has done or suffered.
text: Second, the argument assumes that when a wrongdoer is blameworthy, then either blame or forgiveness is appropriate, but not both.
text: Lastly, I have raised the question of whether forgiveness is appropriate for all offenses, including genocide, and reviewed some evidence suggesting that members of different religions may not agree on this issue.