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A convenient implication of the "things past the Cosmological Horizon don't exist anymore" belief occurs to me. All it takes to utterly annihilate any enemy you have is a fast ship. Fly as fast as you can away from them and poof, you've caused them to cease to exist! The "Ignore Them And They Will Go Away For Real" doomsday device.
You're trying to come up with examples of my belief that seem silly, instead of focusing on rational arguments. You're so focused on this goal that you ignore that flying beyond the Cosmological Horizon solves your problem even under your interpretation. If your enemies can never get you ever again, then isn't it safe to say you've ended the war? Why would you be upset that your enemies exist somewhere in some other impossibly far away region of the galaxy, how would this be any different than having destroyed them or banished them to a different dimension?
Depends, are you trying to escape your enemies or to punish them?
The desire for vengeance has always seemed like another broken intuition to me. It increases the probability that someone will act on sunk costs. If you meant to talk about punishment as deterrence aimed at stopping bad actions from occurring, then flying away arguably achieves this end by making their bad actions cease to exist from your reference point. According to other views, it doesn't. That would bring us back to the initial conflict.
My larger point is that we shouldn't try using thought experiments or examples on things like this because they sneak moral and metaphysical assumptions into the argument without justifying those assumptions, and they also increase the prevalence of emotional biases. Although his specific example fails to help his point, and although it fails to help mine, I think that using any examples at all on problems like this should be avoided as much as possible.