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    It is not the case that Butler did not hold that resentment is a response to injury that is incompatible with good-will and therefore forgiveness.

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    • 1.Butler actually says that forgiveness is perfectly compatible with an attitude of resentment.
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    • 2.Butler held that resentment serves the public good and is compatible with the general obligation to good-will.
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    • 3.Butler describes resentment as both 'natural' and 'innocent'.
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    • 1.Butler distinguishes 'settled anger' (malice) from immediate resentment, treating only the former as incompatible with benevolence.
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    • 2.In Sermon IX, Butler explicitly frames forgiveness as the forswearing of revenge, not the elimination of resentment as a felt response.
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    • 3.This distinction entails that resentment and good-will can coexist, making resentment structurally compatible with forgiveness on Butler's account.
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    • 1.Butler grounds resentment in a retributive moral economy where it signals the moral significance of persons, not a breakdown of goodwill.
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    • 2.Jeffrie Murphy's neo-Butlerian reading confirms that resentment honors self-respect and moral law, functioning independently of ill-will toward the wrongdoer.
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