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    Retaining resentment while forswearing revenge is compati... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Forgiveness is not the forswearing or overcoming of resentment.

    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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    • 1.Forgiveness requires restoration of positive regard; mere renunciation of revenge leaves the relational damage intact.
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    • 2.Paradigm forgiveness cases (parent forgiving child) involve reconciliation; resentment + estrangement describe non-forgiveness.
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    • 3.Psychological evidence shows retained resentment activates stress responses incompatible with genuine forgiveness states.
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    • 1.Forgiveness is fundamentally about releasing the wrongdoer from moral debt, not requiring emotional warmth or relational repair.
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    • 2.Many mature forgiveness cases involve firm boundaries and reduced contact while genuinely abandoning resentment—estrangement compatible with forgiveness.
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    • 3.The claim conflates necessary conditions (no revenge) with sufficient ones; retained contempt may coexist with genuine forgiveness of the act.
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    Key Terms

    Contempt(as used in ethics)
    A feeling of disrespect or disgust toward someone; viewing them as beneath you or worthless.
    Forgiveness(as used in ethics)
    The act of letting go of anger or resentment toward someone who has hurt you, and choosing not to hold their wrongdoing against them anymore.
    Forswearing(as used in ethics)
    Formally giving up or swearing off something; promising not to do it.
    Paradigmatically(as used to describe which dialogues best represent a pattern)
    In a way that serves as a perfect or typical example of something; acting as a model or standard case.
    Relational estrangement(as used in ethics)
    A state where people have become distant or separated from each other, with the relationship broken or cold.
    goodwill(describing what the trusted person might have)
    A genuine desire to help or treat someone well; having friendly or positive intentions toward another person.
    paradigm cases(used to explain how we define concepts)
    The clearest, most obvious examples of something that help us understand what that thing is—like using a robin as the paradigm case of a bird.
    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.
    revenge
    The degenerate form resentment takes when not kept strictly within bounds, conflicting with benevolence and virtue.

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