Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2022
Blame is a puzzling phenomenon. When we find ourselves on the attributing end of things, blame and its attendant practices can strike us as both practically invaluable and as a pervasive feature of our emotional lives. It seems to play an important role in holding one another responsible (both interpersonally and legally), properly valuing and defending the victims of wrongdoing, and perhaps even in sustaining the distinctly moral norms that compose our shared moral communities. It is the kind of thing that we would be hard-pressed to imagine giving up entirely.
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