A son quietly promises his dying mother that he will visit her grave every week. After she dies, he never goes. He feels no guilt about it, and no one ever finds out.
What is your gut reaction?
Psychologists call this moral dumbfounding: feeling sure something is wrong while being unable to say who it harms. It is strong evidence that moral judgment is intuition-first. The gut reaches a verdict, and reasoning shows up afterward as the lawyer, not the judge.
What the intuition is tracking is where experts genuinely disagree. One view says you are tasting a distinct moral foundation here, loyalty to kin or the sanctity of a promise, that has nothing to do with harm. A rival view says that even now you are sensing a faint harm, some victim or violation, and that is what drives the verdict. That part is unsettled. The order is not: the feeling came first, the reasons came hunting after.