"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."

I couldn't fail to disagree with you less.

All seriousness aside, I think the original sentence Max was worried about could use some sort of emphasis.

… they're mutually exclusive

Maybe:

… they *are mutually exclusive if in fact they are. The original looks too much like it *could be a missing word.