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Obviously, the question is, why, what feature allows you to make that distinction.
The open question is how to reason about these situations and know to distinguish them in such reasoning.
"Worlds" can't be logically consistent or inconsistent, at least it's not clear what is the referent of the term "inconsistent world", other than "no information".
And again, why would one care about existence of some world where something is possible, if it's not the world one wants to control? If the definition of what you care about is included, the facts that place a situation in contradiction with that definition make the result inconsistent.
Only one of possible-to-not-blackmail or his-noodliness-exists is consistent with the evidence, to very high probabilities.
Worlds, in the Tegmark-ey sense of a collection of rules and initial conditions, can quite easily be consistent or inconsistent.
You seem to be beating a confusing retreat here. I bet there's a better tack to take.