The options I’m choosing between are Steve rescuing a drowning person and Steve abstaining from drowning a person. If one of those options is obviously better than the other, then the same relationship should hold when I can choose Steve’s actions rather than my own.
Ah! Either I can convince Steve to stop drowning Ann, or [convince Steve to] save Beth. I get it now. I had read it as either I can convince Steve to stop drowning Ann, or [I can] save Beth. Thanks for the clarification… I’d been genuinely confused.
The options I’m choosing between are Steve rescuing a drowning person and Steve abstaining from drowning a person. If one of those options is obviously better than the other, then the same relationship should hold when I can choose Steve’s actions rather than my own.
Ah!
Either I can convince Steve to stop drowning Ann, or [convince Steve to] save Beth.
I get it now.
I had read it as either I can convince Steve to stop drowning Ann, or [I can] save Beth.
Thanks for the clarification… I’d been genuinely confused.
I’ve edited it to hopefully make it unambiguous—I hope no one reads that as Steve convincing himself.