hope you can find a game you like. its not easy to find a game you like till the end of the development. Games change a lot during development sometimes you just don't like them anymore.By the time you reach that scene it isn't optional, the trigger point for it is getting on the Paul blackmail path. PG did put in an escape point but I didn't realise the path was going to escalate so rapidly so didn't use it and saved
After viewing the scene the next thing that happened was the Byron beach date which didn't feel right in context
I felt icky about playing so stopped. I deleted my save because there was no way off the Paul blackmail route. I stopped supporting PG because, after 2 months of not wanting to play his game anymore due to the aforementioned ickyness, I decided to spend my money elsewhere
next time if you see a warning (and the dev did make it sound dead serious), think twice before you dive into the path or this whole thing could happen again.