Whoop, sorry, I deleted the comment before you replied.
Let us assume that you will never, under any circumstances hand over $5 unless you feel good and happy and marvelous about it. Omega can easily pick a circumstance where you feel good, happy, marvelous about handing it $5. In this scenario, by definition, you will not feel mugged.
On the other hand, let us assume that you can be bullied into handing over $5 by Omega appearing and demanding $5 in one minute. If this works, which we are assuming it does, Omega can appear and get its $5. You will like you were just mugged, but the only way this can happen is if you are the sort of person that will actually hand over $5 without understanding why. Omega is a “jerk” in the sense that it made you feel like you were being mugged but this doesn’t imply anything about the scenario or Omega. It implies something about the situations in which you would hand Omega $5. (And that Omega doesn’t care about being a jerk.)
The point is this: If you made a steadfast decision to never hand Omega $5 without feeling happy about it, Omega would never ask you for $5 without making you feel happy about it. If you decide to never, ever hand over $5 while feel happy about it, than you will never see a non-mugging scenario.
Note: This principle is totally limited to the scenario discussed in the OP. This has no bearing on Newcomb’s or Counterfactual Mugging or anything else.
Whoop, sorry, I deleted the comment before you replied.
Let us assume that you will never, under any circumstances hand over $5 unless you feel good and happy and marvelous about it. Omega can easily pick a circumstance where you feel good, happy, marvelous about handing it $5. In this scenario, by definition, you will not feel mugged.
On the other hand, let us assume that you can be bullied into handing over $5 by Omega appearing and demanding $5 in one minute. If this works, which we are assuming it does, Omega can appear and get its $5. You will like you were just mugged, but the only way this can happen is if you are the sort of person that will actually hand over $5 without understanding why. Omega is a “jerk” in the sense that it made you feel like you were being mugged but this doesn’t imply anything about the scenario or Omega. It implies something about the situations in which you would hand Omega $5. (And that Omega doesn’t care about being a jerk.)
The point is this: If you made a steadfast decision to never hand Omega $5 without feeling happy about it, Omega would never ask you for $5 without making you feel happy about it. If you decide to never, ever hand over $5 while feel happy about it, than you will never see a non-mugging scenario.
Note: This principle is totally limited to the scenario discussed in the OP. This has no bearing on Newcomb’s or Counterfactual Mugging or anything else.