If forgiveness is a performative or normative act rather than an emotional achievement, then overcoming resentment is a possible consequence of forgiving, not a necessary precondition.

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Necessary precondition(as used in logic and philosophy): Something that must be true or must happen first before something else can happen—like needing flour as a necessary precondition for baking bread.
Performative act(what the apostrophe is characterized as doing): An action done through language that doesn't just describe something but actually *does* something—like how saying 'I promise' doesn't describe a promise but creates one.
emotional achievement(as used in philosophy of emotion): A state of feeling that you work toward and accomplish over time, like successfully training yourself to feel calm instead of angry.
normative act(as used in ethics): An action that sets or follows a standard or rule about how things should be, as opposed to just describing how things actually are.
possible consequence(as used in logic and philosophy): A result that might happen as a result of an action, but isn't guaranteed to happen every time.
resentment(Proposed within the no-priority view discussion of wrongness): A specific form of anger conceptually restricted to cases that are founded on moral reasons, particularly wrongness.

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