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    It is not the case that Forgiveness is not the forswearing or overcoming of resentment.

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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy's foundational account holds that forgiveness is precisely the 'foreswearing of resentment on moral grounds' — making resentment-dissolution its defining feature.
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    • 2.If forgiveness leaves resentment intact and merely redirects it away from revenge, it is indistinguishable from mere self-restraint or moral self-discipline.
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    • 3.A conceptual account that cannot distinguish forgiveness from grudging non-retaliation fails as an analysis of the distinct moral phenomenon we call forgiveness.
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    • 1.Charles Griswold argues that genuine forgiveness requires a change in the victim's affective stance toward the wrongdoer, not merely a behavioral change in how resentment is expressed.
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    • 2.Retaining resentment while forswearing revenge is compatible with continued contempt, diminished goodwill, and relational estrangement — states paradigmatically absent in paradigm cases of forgiveness.
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    • 3.Therefore, overcoming resentment is not incidental to forgiveness but constitutive of the restored moral relationship forgiveness is meant to achieve.
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    • 1.Resentment itself is natural and innocent.
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    • 2.It is only when resentment is indulged and allowed to bleed into revenge that a violation of goodwill occurs.
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    • 3.The work of forgiveness is to prevent resentment from leading us to seek revenge, not to eliminate resentment itself.
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