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I'm aware that it must sound like an extremely obvious choice to someone who's willing to high-decouple it and look at the thought experiment as a strictly one-time thing, not something that is in practice a) too good a deal to be true; b) will lead to a markedly more degraded world if permitted in general. I'm not humoring it, and seeing as it's originally proposed for the purposes of trolling, I'm feeling rather vindicated about it, too.
As the joke goes, "in theory we have $3 million between us, and in practice we have 2 faggots and a whore". I prefer to show my moral inclinations in practice.
Unlike some I do not believe in a God-given right to be listened to, mine or otherwise. You will not mathematically prove the righteousness of your beliefs to me, and neither will I attempt to. The answer to "why do you think you're right and this guy you disagree with isn't" is always "because I'm right and this guy I disagree with isn't".
Sure, so I hope you understand why I am completely dismissive of your objections to the issue at hand (and think that society should also be completely dismissve of it), it's for the exact same reason you are dismissive of the Saudi moralist's objection to gays (and think that society should be completely dismissive of that too).
If that's the only thing you were trying to tell me, you've kind of been wasting your time, because I'm already aware of that.
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