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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.

Comments

[doreimi]

it's just a hypothetical question, anyway. something to make people think, and see what they say.

[NO IT ISN'T NO IT ISN'T]

i think this place makes things like that really complicated, is all.

[i_will_live]

You're a bad liar, but I hope it works out for you.

Just try to stay safe if that's a concern, but I don't think you should discount the person at least until you learn their side of it and see for yourself.

[doreimi]

it seems like a lot of people are saying they consider this place to be "like a second chance". i wonder why that is...

i mean, i don't think anybody asked to wind up here. so why does coming here automatically mean a clean slate and a fresh start? is it because we're all in the same boat in so many ways?

[i_will_live]

Well it's a place removed from our own world where what someone might have done is removed. You could use it as a fresh start.

I also know from experience people that have died can end up here. So doesn't that make it feel like a fresh start?

[doreimi]

i'm not sure how i feel about that, the part about how the things that people have done are removed by being here. i think that can be a good thing, but in some cases it's a little bit like letting someone evil off too easily.

[i_will_live]

Maybe, but that's why I mentioned if they want to change or not.

It'd be a pretty unusual person who tries to be evil. People who do evil things convince themselves with twisted justifications.

If someone really wants to change though and sees what they did wrong, will them suffering forever help anybody?