The update is to answer one, making it explicit that the swords are known fake and you're assuming that the guy won't be able to figure that out, right?
LCPW: You tell him they're fake and he disagrees, insisting that they are real. Now what?
This seems not to be relevant to the original issue, assuming that in the case of a rapture the atheists who are signed up with this service actually do the promised pet care. In any case it doesn't answer my question - if you're saying that beliefs are one thing and delusions are another, and it's okay to bet on beliefs but not on delusions, how do you decide whether something is a belief or a delusion?
In other words, you want me to give you a computable classifier that makes sufficient distinctions to resolve a moral dilemma. Sorry, I can't do that. No one can.
What I can do is articulate my intuition on this enough to show where the fuzzy line is and why I think something falls beyond the fuzziness. If there are specific distinctions you think I should or shouldn't be making, which would push this back to or past the fuzzy boundary, I'm quite interested in hearing it.
The update is to answer one, making it explicit that the swords are known fake and you're assuming that the guy won't be able to figure that out, right?
LCPW: You tell him they're fake and he disagrees, insisting that they are real. Now what?
Personally? I'd sell him the swords, assuming there were no other issues. (I might decline to sell them to him on the grounds that he might try to hurt someone with them, but in that case what am I doing selling swords in the first place?)
...What I can do is articulate my intuition on this enough to show where the
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Providing assurance that pets will be provided for in the event of Rapture.
Having thought it over, I'm OK with the ethics of this service.