From Moral Blame to Moral Wrongness
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[I must apologize for the fact that this paper is very late, very rough, incomplete, and nearly devoid of citations. As a result, I recognize that I am deserving of the very attitude of moral blame that is the central theme of this paper. An unintended benefit of this situation is that the reader is likely to have this attitude in mind while reading the paper, and will thus be in a better position to evaluate the paper’s central claims.]
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