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It doesn't look like undeserved guilt gets you anything that plain vanilla guilt doesn't. Vanilla guilt suffices to make it so that it's not in your self-interest to kill your brother, arrange for a disaster etc.
What do you mean by "vanilla" guilt?
Feeling bad for actually having committed a crime.
I think the implication is that undeserved guilt serves to signal to others - once the event has actually happened - that those things were not in your self interest. Everyone can see they weren't, because you are publicly paying a higher cost than the benefit you would receive for having caused them.
Vanilla guilt perhaps helps, but it's a much less powerful signal to the community. First, you must have committed a crime in the past, so they can know that you are a guilt-feeling person. Second, they have to trust that your personality hasn't changed since then. Third, they have to know about/remember the incident in question, and fourth they have to make the mental leap of using that memory as evidence in this situation.
Those reasons do make sense. I think the post should mention them.
It's the kind with the lovely bits of vanilla bean in, comes in a tin with the white flowers on the label, you know the stuff.
And then of course there's chocolate guilt. I used to get that all the time at Chanukah.
Ah, if only it were true