Saying “I’d rather die than live like that” is distinct from “this is worse than non-existence.”
Can you clarify?
Even the implication that moving a NK person to SK is better than saving 10 SK lives is sort of implausible—for both NKs and SKs alike.
I don’t know what they would find implausible. To me it seems plausible.
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