If this choice was actually presented to someone, my guess would be that he would first choose the speck, and then after an extremely long time (i.e. much, much longer than 50 years, giving him a sense of proportion) he would undergo a preference reversal and ask for the torture.
If this choice was actually presented to someone, my guess would be that he would first choose the speck, and then after an extremely long time (i.e. much, much longer than 50 years, giving him a sense of proportion) he would undergo a preference reversal and ask for the torture.