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    Challenges→Resentment as such is compatible with good-will.

    Bishop Butler's own framework distinguishes resentment from malice, but this distinction does not establish compatibility with good-will—only with the absence of active ill-will.

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    • 1.Resentment involves reactive anger at wrongdoing; malice involves active intent to harm. These are psychologically distinct states.
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    • 2.Absence of active ill-will is a meaningful moral constraint that permits resentment while excluding the most vicious motivations.
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    • 3.Good-will and resentment can coexist when resentment targets injustice rather than the person, preserving benevolent intent toward their improvement.
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    • 1.Mere absence of active ill-will is too weak a standard; good-will requires positive concern for another's welfare, not merely refraining from harm.
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    • 2.Resentment, even without malice, involves emotional hostility that fundamentally opposes the benevolence constitutive of good-will.
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    • 3.Butler's distinction may preserve logical compatibility but not practical/psychological compatibility—resentful agents don't manifest good-will in conduct.
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