Except that no one is asking for your wallet to avert the Doom scenario.
What if instead we imagine that you are the Microsoft CEO and a stranger stops you in a dark alley and tells you that if you give them 140bn dollars they will create God and you get to be God’s boss.
That seems closer to the standard Pascals mugging format.
Yes. It was rational. But thanks for ruining everyone’s day by highlighting how many men are clearly willing and eager to rape children, and how law enforcement are either so under resourced or inept that you basically have to wear a sign around your neck declaring yourself a child rapist for them to prosecute you.