No, I would feel the same if there were witnesses to my failure to risk myself to save my actual bad-blood-brother in such a hypothetical situation. I just stipulated the ‘no witnesses’ to contrast with the first situation fully.
I’m just saying: “okay, here’s a hypothetical situation where none of the reasons proposed in this article for the existence of guilt apply, and yet I’d expect to feel great guilt. By contrast, here’s a situation where they all apply but I wouldn’t expect to feel guilt.”
The question is, do you other people feel my expectations are wrong? Would you expect differently for yourselves? How do you think most people would [expect to feel/actually feel if such a thing happened]? Do you think I’m mistaken about how my hypothetical situations relate to the arguments in this article? Etc
No, I would feel the same if there were witnesses to my failure to risk myself to save my actual bad-blood-brother in such a hypothetical situation. I just stipulated the ‘no witnesses’ to contrast with the first situation fully.
I’m just saying: “okay, here’s a hypothetical situation where none of the reasons proposed in this article for the existence of guilt apply, and yet I’d expect to feel great guilt. By contrast, here’s a situation where they all apply but I wouldn’t expect to feel guilt.”
The question is, do you other people feel my expectations are wrong? Would you expect differently for yourselves? How do you think most people would [expect to feel/actually feel if such a thing happened]? Do you think I’m mistaken about how my hypothetical situations relate to the arguments in this article? Etc