  Sometimes moral beliefs and moral emotions can diverge, yet it can be rational to trust the moral emotion rather than the moral belief. In Section 3 we discussed the hybrid conception of moral judgment that allows for this kind of separation of belief and emotion. One of the examples was that of a woman who feels strong moral resentment at having been passed over for promotion in favour of someone whose performance was inferior to hers. It is possible that she doesn’t believe that she has been wronged, perhaps because she believes the man performed better and her feelings are not trustworthy. Suppose that her resentment persists, despite her efforts to ignore it. Must her moral emotion then be irrational? Imagine that she feels resentment because in fact she can recognize no morally relevant difference between her case and that of the other that would explain why she wasn’t promoted. Even if she does not at first consciously think about it in this way, her resentment can arise because her emotions have been attuned to respond to other cases where a promotion has been granted unfairly and where in retrospect there is no doubt in anyone’s mind (like the pond case) what would have been the right thing to do. In short, her moral emotion may be rationally grounded, if there exists no morally relevant difference between her situation and one in which the morally right response is not in doubt from anyone’s perspective but is contrary to the decision made in her case.