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What is blameworthiness?

What is blameworthiness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The characteristic of being blameworthy.
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The third points to the need to move beyond what is by definition a notion of individual moral blameworthiness and to figure out how groups might be understood as morally blameworthy qua groups.
But this no more affects Mark's blameworthiness than the evil demon's threat affects an object's admirability.
The focus is on the blameworthiness of the accused.38 As such, the standard of proof in a criminal proceeding is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Such a person has surely crossed the threshold of blameworthiness, both in conduct and in the accompanying fault.
Yet another strategy is to divorce completely the moral appraisals of acts from the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the agents who undertake them, even when those agents are fully cognizant of the moral appraisals.
The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge had under-emphasized the gravity of the offence and the offender's moral blameworthiness.

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