TheAncientGeek comments on Emotional Basilisks - Less Wrong
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You've brought in moral realism, which isnt relevant.
"Would you do X, if it was epistemically rational, but not instrumentally rational"
"Would you do Y if it was instrumentally rational, but not epistemically rational"
If two concepts arent the same under all possible circumstances, they aren't the same concept. Hypotheticals are an appropriate way of determining that.