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    If resentment is normatively defective as a basis for hol... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Emotions associated with self-blame (guilt, remorse) and others' blame (anger, resentment) play a central role in the process of taking responsibility for wrongdoing.

    If resentment is normatively defective as a basis for holding others responsible, then a process of taking responsibility that is structurally responsive to such emotions inherits that defect.

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    • 1.Resentment is reactive emotion shaped by personal hurt rather than impartial moral principles, making it epistemically unreliable for justifying responsibility.
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    • 2.If a foundation is defective, structures built upon it inherit that defect unless actively corrected through independent justification.
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    • 3.Responsibility processes responsive to resentment lack the independent corrective mechanisms needed to override emotion-based distortions.
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    • 1.Resentment can track genuine wrongdoing reliably; emotional bases for beliefs need not be epistemically defective if properly calibrated.
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    • 2.A process can be structurally responsive to emotions while filtering their defects through procedural safeguards and reflective oversight.
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    • 3.Inheriting a defect requires the defect to transmit causally; reflective responsibility-taking may break this causal chain independently.
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    Basis for holding responsible(as used in ethics and accountability)
    The reasons or grounds you use to justify blaming someone or expecting them to answer for their actions.
    Inherits that defect(as used in logic and causality)
    Takes on or automatically receives the same flaw or problem that the thing it's based on has.
    Normatively defective(as used in evaluating the quality of reasons or emotions)
    Failing to meet a standard of how things should ideally work or be done; not living up to the right way of doing something.
    Structurally responsive(as used in describing how systems or processes relate to their inputs)
    Built in a way that follows from or mirrors the nature of something else; designed to react to or match the form of something.
    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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