Question

You said in one of your lectures on faith that one person may ask forgiveness out of pangs of conscience, while another will do so out of intellectual understanding, even in the absence of those feelings, and that his action is more elevated because it cannot be said of him that he is acting in order to sustain his feelings.
The difficulty I have is that even about the person who asked forgiveness out of intellectual understanding that what he did was immoral, one could also say that he is sustaining his values, even if their source is cognitive rather than emotional.
 
What do you think?