"I'm concerned about the socially-undesirable implications of a model described by this causal graph."
(studying it) "Have you considered that these arrows might point in the socially-desirable direction instead?"
(with exasperation, as if realizing he is doomed to have this conversation dozens of times with everyone who is not a Dark Rationalist corrupted by cruel apprehension of patterns that innocents were not meant to see) "Yes, I have considered that! I consider it extremely implausible!"
"I am worthless; the world is unfair; the future is hopeless."
"If everything looks shitty, consider you may be wearing shit-coloured glasses."
(with exasperation, as if realising he is doomed to have this conversation dozens of times with everyone unenlightened by the cosmic truth of cynicism) "Yes, I have considered that! I consider it extremely implausible!"