This is not say that Smith should not feel bad about what he's
done. The proper response, however, is not guilt or self-reproach.
It is rather a sentiment akin to what Bernard Williams calls
'agent regret'.8 The scrupulous driver who kills a pedestrian
through no fault of his own may feel awful and perhaps he
should. But if it's clear that he has been neither reckless nor negligent,
then no one should hold the bad consequence against him
in the manner characteristic of blame.
Smith's case is similar, but there is a difference well