Edit History (Oldest to Newest)
Version: 1
Fields Changed (Original)
Updated
Content

"Metaphorically.  We'll give you respect on a moral level for winning the bets you obviously would have placed with us.  And yes, I'm mostly guessing different innate sexualities, but I am still entertaining the possibility that this world is not just a horrifying thought experiment, and to the extent that it isn't, your sexuality could be an organic thing natural to both our kinds that my kind never figured out.  It is not - not something it would have made me a good person to think about, in my home world, if I hadn't been given actual cause to think about it - but it's the sort of thing that a person smarter than me would be carefully keeping track of, so I'm pretending to be smarter and doing that."

Version: 2
Fields Changed Content
Updated
Content

"Metaphorically.  We'll give you respect on a moral level for winning the bets you obviously would have placed with us.  And yes, I'm mostly guessing different innate sexualities; but I am still entertaining the possibility that this world is not just a horrifying thought experiment, and to the extent that it isn't, your sexuality could be an organic thing natural to both our kinds that my kind never figured out.  It is not - not something it would have made me a good person to think about, in my home world, if I hadn't been given actual cause to think about it - but it's the sort of thing that a person smarter than me would be carefully keeping track of, in my situation, so I'm pretending to be smarter and doing that."

Version: 3
Fields Changed Content
Updated
Content

"Metaphorically.  We'll give you respect on a moral level for winning the bets you obviously would have placed with us.  And yes, I'm mostly guessing different innate sexualities; but I am still entertaining the possibility that this world is not just a horrifying thought experiment, and to the extent that it isn't, your sexuality could be an organic thing natural to both our kinds that my kind never figured out.  It is not - not something it would have made me a good person to think about, in my home world, if I hadn't been given actual cause to think about it - but it's the sort of thing that a person smarter than me would be carefully keeping track of, in my situation.  So I'm pretending to be smarter and pretending to keep track of it."

Version: 4
Fields Changed Content
Updated
Content

"Metaphorically.  We'll give you respect on a moral level for winning the bets you obviously would have placed with us.  And yes, I'm mostly guessing different innate sexualities; but I am still entertaining the possibility that this world is not just a horrifying thought experiment, and to the extent that it isn't, your sexuality could be an organic thing natural to both our kinds that my kind never figured out.  It is not - not something it would have made me a good person to think about, in my home world, if I hadn't been given actual cause to think about it - but it's the sort of possibility that a person smarter than me would be carefully keeping track of, in my situation.  So I'm pretending to be smarter and pretending to keep track of it."