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Don't worry about it; if you decline a Pascal's mugging I'll cause positive utility equal to twice the amount of negative utility you were threatened with, and if you accept one I'll cause negative utility equal to twice what you were threatened with.
Trust me.
Excuse me, I'm going to go and use this on all my friends.
Why did I never think of this? I mean I have thought of very similar things in a thought experiment sense and I've even used it to explain to people that paying the mugging cannot be something correct but unpalatable, but it never occurred to me to use it on someone.