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Because resentment has moral weight, and people feel that intuitively. It’s very taboo owing to being in conflict with more popular moral paradigms, so most of the time with resentment based moral thinking people pretend that’s not what they’re really about. But that means it is especially novel and satisfying when a character comes right out and says it, even if that character is supposed to be wrong or the bad guy.
Because resentment has moral weight, and people feel that intuitively. It’s very taboo owing to being in conflict with more popular moral paradigms, so most of the time with resentment based moral thinking people pretend that’s not what they’re really about. But that means it is especially novel and satisfying when a character comes right out and says it, even if that character is supposed to be wrong or the bad guy.