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[doreimi]

i have a question. there's no right or wrong answer, i'm just wondering what people think.

suppose somebody came here, and outwardly they seemed like an average person. kept to themselves, didn't make trouble, maybe were a little bit weird but not, like, offensively so. you've never seen them do anything wrong. they seem pretty harmless. they're just a normal, fine, generally boring person.

then imagine somebody else said that they knew that person, and that all the niceness was just an act, and really that person was dangerous. really dangerous. and that the person hurt people in really bad ways. but imagine there was no proof of it, really, just that upset person's word against the boring person's.

how would you decide who to believe? would you only go by what you saw yourself, or only by what happened here and not where they came from, or what? would you believe anyone at all?

like i said, there's no right or wrong answer, i guess. i just wonder how you would make a decision either way, in a situation like that.

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[justsomeshrimp]

It's very hard to say.
Either way there is a potential for causing an innocent person harm.
In truth, however, I would be inclined to believe the person speaking up.
I of course would keep an open mind but depending on the exact nature of the accusations I might be more or less compelled.
I'd want to be believed, so I in turn will try to believe others.

[This is. Really hitting close to home.]

permanon

[doreimi]

so you'd believe the person speaking up because you've also been that person before? the person who knew something about someone else, i mean.

permanon

[justsomeshrimp]

To be more exact I'm very afraid of becoming that person here. There's a certain person from my world who I really hope never show up in this place.

[doreimi]

that's a hard feeling to deal with, i think. did they do something to you, and that's why you don't want them here?

[justsomeshrimp]

They did. To a lot of people back home as well.

There is a little relief in know they won't have the same power and authority here that they do back home but they know how to put on a charismatic face.