A counterfactual willingness that never manifests under actual circumstances cannot be assessed with the same confidence as demonstrated conduct, making equal responsibility attribution epistemically unjustified.

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Demonstrated conduct(as used in ethics): Your actual behavior—the things you have actually done, not just said you'd do.
Epistemically(as how you should evaluate your own beliefs): In a way that relates to knowledge—meaning you understand something based on actual information or justified reasons, not just guessing.
Responsibility attribution(as used in ethics and philosophy of action): The process of deciding whether someone deserves credit or blame for something they did (or didn't do).
Unjustified(as describing beliefs that don't have reasons backing them up): Lacking reasons or evidence to support why you believe something; accepted without proof or explanation.
Willingness(as used in ethics and philosophy of action): Your readiness or desire to do something; what you're inclined to do.
counterfactual(Modal logic and epistemology): A conditional statement concerning what would be the case if some antecedent condition were true, evaluated across possible worlds; contraposition does not hold in general for counterfactuals.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry): A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs

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