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Dimensions of Victimhood

2026-06-04

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<p>Moral and political conflicts revolve around victimhood —who is harmed, how severely, and even whether harm has occurred at all. Although humans have always cared about concrete interpersonal victimhood, the complexity of modern society creates many varieties of victimhood, which we organize along two dimensions: Scale (the number of victims) and Tangibility (the concreteness of victimization). These dimensions...

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Literature Corpus work: 5735a579-7748-540b-aa53-01dce330d9c3
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4ycm6_v1

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