There has been recent discussion of a puzzle posed by emotions that are backward looking. Though our emotions commonly diminish over time, how can they diminish fittingly if they are an accurate appraisal of an event that is situated in the past? Agnes Callard (2017) has offered a solution by providing an account of anger in which anger is both backwards looking and resolvable, yet her account depends upon contrition to explain anger's fitting diminishment. My aim is to explain how anger can fittingly diminish even when there is lack of contrition. I propose a permissivism about fittingness by showing that both anger and compassion are fitting responses to blameworthy behaviour. I argue that anger is rendered fitting because it accurately appraises the behaviour, whereas compassion becomes fitting as a valuational response to what the behaviour reveals about the lived experience of the offender. I then respond to some worries my account raises, and I clarify details of my account to show that it is not unrealistic to the way some of our anger actually does diminish. I end with a proposal that our anger can fittingly diminish through the act of forgiveness when compassion is not a forthcoming affective response.

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愤怒的适当减少：宽容主义的解释

最近有人讨论了向后看的情绪所带来的难题。虽然我们的情绪通常会随着时间的推移而减弱，但如果它们是对过去发生的事件的准确评价，它们如何能适当地减弱呢？艾格尼丝·卡拉德（Agnes Callard，2017）通过对愤怒的描述提供了一个解决方案，其中愤怒既是回顾性的又是可以解决的，但她的描述依赖于忏悔来解释愤怒的适当减少。我的目的是解释即使缺乏悔悟，愤怒也能适当地减少。我通过表明愤怒和同情都是对应受谴责的行为的适当反应，提出了一种关于适当性的宽容主义。我认为愤怒是恰当的，因为它准确地评价了行为，而同情心则适合作为对行为所揭示的犯罪者生活经历的评价反应。然后，我对我的账户提出的一些担忧做出回应，并澄清我的账户的细节，以表明我们的一些愤怒实际上确实减少了，这并非不现实。最后我建议，当同情不是即将到来的情感反应时，我们的愤怒可以通过宽恕的行为适当地减少。