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    Resentment as such is compatible with good-will. — Carmelics
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    Resentment as such is compatible with good-will.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • 1.Resentment helps us deal with those who harm us: it motivates us to insulate ourselves from wrongdoers and to deter future wrongdoing via punishment.
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    • 2.When resentment has these ends it serves the public good and is therefore compatible with the general obligation to good-will.
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    • 3.Resentment is both 'natural' and 'innocent'.
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    • 1.Resentment is inherently a reactive attitude that focuses on the wrongdoer's offense, orienting the self toward the past harm rather than the other's welfare.
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    • 2.Good-will, as Kant argues in the Groundwork, requires treating persons as ends in themselves, which resentment structurally undermines by reducing the other to their wrongdoing.
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    • 3.An attitude whose functional logic is adversarial cannot simultaneously embody the unconditional positive regard that genuine good-will requires.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.Compatibility with the absence of malice is a far weaker condition than compatibility with good-will, and the supporting argument conflates these two distinct standards.
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    • 3.Therefore, even granting Butler's defense of 'natural' resentment, the conclusion that resentment is compatible with good-will does not follow from the premises offered.
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    Consider the claim that Butler held that resentment is a response to injury that is incompatible with good-will and therefore forgiveness. What Butler actually says, however, is that forgiveness is perfectly compatible with an attitude of resentment. Butler held that resentment helps us to deal with those who harm us: it motivates us to insulate ourselves from wrongdoers, and it motivates us to deter future wrongdoing via punishment. When resentment has these ends it serves the public good and is therefore compatible with the general obligation to good-will [IX.9]. Indeed, as Butler puts it, r...

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