“The minute part of possibility space that you are focussing on does not merit so much as a millisecond of anyone’s attention.”—which is exactly the same as: “I don’t find this topic interesting for whatever reason, and wish to talk about something I am interested in.”
“I reject the attempt to induce me to give you a soundbite that you are going to broadcast out of context”—that can definitely be the case. But this isn’t really an issue specific to hypotheticals, just non-good faith discussions in general.
“The minute part of possibility space that you are focussing on does not merit so much as a millisecond of anyone’s attention.”—which is exactly the same as: “I don’t find this topic interesting for whatever reason, and wish to talk about something I am interested in.”
“does not merit so much as a millisecond of anyone’s attention” is a quite different claim from “I don’t find this topic interesting”.
“The minute part of possibility space that you are focussing on does not merit so much as a millisecond of anyone’s attention.”—which is exactly the same as: “I don’t find this topic interesting for whatever reason, and wish to talk about something I am interested in.”
“I reject the attempt to induce me to give you a soundbite that you are going to broadcast out of context”—that can definitely be the case. But this isn’t really an issue specific to hypotheticals, just non-good faith discussions in general.
“does not merit so much as a millisecond of anyone’s attention” is a quite different claim from “I don’t find this topic interesting”.