Yes, I was deliberately ignoring you because you were assuming agreement on things that I had already made clear that I don't agree with.

I perhaps should have made myself more clear. One of the points should have been "You assume for the purposes of attempting an argument to absurdity and I similarly assume for the purposes of following through just what the implications are". It is the intuitive preferences over the states of the universe that I assumed would be shared by most. I also believed that they served to illustrate the bulk of your point.