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"And?  Just as I don't value a 1/3 chance of winning an apple at 1/3 of an apple's value, I don't value a 512-in-19683 chance of ending up paying you zero apples at around 1/38th the value of paying you zero apples.  Why, I value it at around 9/10th the value of paying you zero apples with surety!  As for all those other outcomes where I end up paying you one, two, or even nine apples, I value all of those put together with the remaining 1/10th of the weight that I put on things, when I weigh possibilities."

"If I haven't started out by already accepting that chances of things happening, ought to be weighted proportional to their probability, then when I look at all the things that might probably happen when you ask to buy four 1/2 chances of winning an apple from me, I don't have to value the 1/16th chance of paying you zero apples at 1/16th the value I put on that outcome."

"In other words, you're trying to convince me to accept that principle using an argument that only works on people who've already accepted it."

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"And?  Just as I don't value a 1/3 chance of winning an apple at 1/3 of an apple's value, I don't value a 512-in-19683 chance of ending up paying you zero apples at around 1/38th the value of paying you zero apples.  Why, I value it at around 9/10th the value of paying you zero apples with surety!  As for all those other outcomes where I end up paying you one, two, or even nine apples, I value all of those put together with the remaining 1/10th of the weight that I put on things, when I weigh possibilities."

"If I haven't started out by already accepting that chances of things happening, ought to be weighted proportional to their probability, then when I look at all the things that might probably happen when you ask to buy four 1/2 chances of winning an apple from me, I don't have to value the 1/16th chance of paying you zero apples at 1/16th the value I put on that outcome."

"In other words, you're trying to convince me to accept the principle of weighting outcomes proportional to their probabilities, using an argument that only works on people who've already accepted that."