The main point, if you can comprehend: If we are subjected to ads, i.e. if we buy the game, there are ads, wouldn't you rather them be targeted? The question wasn't about the legitimacy of ads in games (I dislike them as well) but whether or not you want them gathering information to target them. The whole point of this thread was about gaining understanding.
You've been dating this really hot girl, and she promises you some action, as long as you take her out for a real expensive dinner. You already went out with her once or twice, on her dime, and it was a pretty good time, but the only way you're really getting some is if you pay up. Seems like a fair deal.
So you take her out to this expensive dinner, and she's telling you how good she's gonna give it to you tonight. You're on the way home, thinking about how great it is going to be. As soon as you get home, you tear her clothes off. All of a sudden a whip drops to the floor. She picks it up, and tells you that if you really wanna get some, she's going to bring the pain with it. As if it wasn't bad enough already, you find out that she's actually 50 years old, and is just wearing a lot of makeup. One titty is bigger than the other. She's got band aids all over her body. And she has the clap. The kind of gonorrhea that seems like nothing, but hurts like a bitch when it finally breaks out on you. And it's raw dog, or nothing - no connie for you. Put one on, and she won't put out. She says all of this is for your own good, that this is just how things work in 2006. She can't get all horny for you without flailing you with her all strength. In the end, it'll be better for both of us, she says. Deep inside, you know she's out of her god damn mind. The only one thats getting off on that whipping is her.
She says you only have one decision to make:
1-She can whip you with her eyes open. And she has excellent aim, and promises to whip you exactly where it'll hurt least - you might even like it, she says.
2. She can whip you with her eyes closed. It's going to hurt either way, but this will probably hurt more.
If I HAVE to my ass whipped, I'd rather it be as painless as possible. So in this alternate reality where you have these choices, and these choices only, the choice is clear.
And its a cute rhetorical question. But it's also lacking any substance whatsoever. You can distill any subject down, and throw away all context, to the point where you can make a truthful statement that has absolutely no use in the real world.
In reality, you'd run for it. You'd tell her, "how about you not whip me?" "How about you get the hell out?" Too bad you already paid for her. All your friends to you she was psycho, but you didnt listen. Hell, if you were really that upset, you'd tell everyone about her, maybe even try and take her down. If you don't, it'll only happen to the next guy.
Some people might say well, ass is ass. It's here and waiting, might as well go for it. Especially if they don't know any better or are REALLY hard up for it.
The point of this all: If there ever came a time when I had pay for an expensive dinner and get whipped in order to get some from a 50 year old skank with the clap, I'd go celibate.