I think it's because it's so transparent that there's not really a problem here. This is framed so that it's obviously a good idea to give Clippy what he wants (yes I'm projecting gender onto the paperclip machine, shush).

In the more traditional setups it makes it explicitly clear that you can lie to Paul Ekman. But laws are harder to break than promises.

As far as the real world important implication goes: does this have something to do with the US healthcare bill?