Choosing between preventing hiccups and preventing a shark attack

Eliezer Kowski poses a question about the trade-off between preventing hiccups and preventing a shark attack/nIf hiccups are assigned negative value, then a large number of hiccups could outweigh a single shark attack/nThe argument suggests that there must be a number of hiccups that could be even worse than a shark attack/nHowever, the speaker disagrees with this argument and states that there is no such number/nThe reason for this disagreement is not provided in the passage