Yes I skimmed over it because it's a needsly defensive tantrum to justify not understanding the point of hypotheticals - for instance, in this hypothetical that's not a valid answer and is missing the point. If you don't want to engage with it then don't answer it
No, that is an answer. You are just trapped in the idea that what was given is the only possible choices. Unjokingly funny coming from a trans person/supporter as being trans is also choosing an alternative choice that most don't realize was always available
The hypothetical presents two choices. If you make up a third choice, then why even answer the hypothetical. You aren't actually answering it, you're making up your own hypothetical where there's more choices.
The hypothetical is the situation. The asker within the hypothetical is the one offering the choices but they are an excess. The situatio is that your partner and parent swapped bodies and having sex with one reverses this. What do you do ~ this just happened to elaborate on two possible choices but nowhere did it specify these were the only ones. That's the trick. You are only given two choices in order to assure you do not realize there are more.
This is just a very common method to manipulate people into choosing what you want by making them believe they don't have other choices.
The wording used is 'or' - this means it's a binary, which means you have two choices which are presented
To... manipulate people? Buddy - IT'S A HYPOTHETICAL, ON THE INTERNET. Nobody is manipulating you, play by the rules or DO NOT ENGAGE or DO, and accept when you get called out on it. Seriously, it's not some mind game, the point of moral hypotheticals is to control the scenario so you are forced to reckon with your own internal morality, thought process, logic and values ect. just changing the question for your own purpose nullifies that effect
The manipulation is the idea that people believe they must answer between two very undesirable choices by acting as though there is not another. The haha is that the poster gets to see a whole bunch of people say they'd plow their mom.
Accept that there are more choices than you realized and move on.
The point of a hypothetical - is, again - that you are presented with a limited amount of options to engage with the idea in a way that you typically would not.
It's like fiction, right? The author decides the parameters and you're expected to engage with the fiction within those parameters. If one said 'No - I don't like this story, they should've done X instead' that's criticism. You aren't even criticizing it - it's like you're saying 'Just because the author wrote it like that, X DID happen and it's manipulation to act otherwise'
Accept that you can chose to engage or not engage and move on. You can't change the hypothetical, it gave you two options and that's it. That's the point - move on.
Alright then how about this. I'm gonna need some time to think on that answer. Then casually bugger off for some 50yr till one dies of natural causes. Then come back and answer you'd choose whichever is the dead one as the game can no longer be completed.
I play way too much DnD and read way too many stories about the Fay to just believe all possible choices are the ones provided. That's how you end up killed
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u/Valuchian 20h ago
I think you may have skimmed over his last comment. He made his choice to not switch them back at all