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    It is not the case that Resentment as such is compatible with good-will.

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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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    • 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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