Deserved guilt? A challenge from small wrongdoings

According to a prominent view, all blameworthy wrongdoers deserve to feel guilt at some point in time and to some degree. In this paper, I pose a challenge against this view by examining cases involving extremely small wrongdoings. I contend that, granted that defenders of the above view have provided strong intuitive support and reasons for their thesis when it comes to the morally severe wrongdoings, similar considerations do not extend to the extremely small wrongdoings. I then consider three alternative forms of the thesis about deserved guilt. I suggest that the challenge from extremely small wrongdoings can be extended to criticize two of them as well. Though the third form remains promising, it would require us to significantly revise our understanding of the roles of guilt in moral responsibility practices.