054. Honesty

[electroniccrane]

[audio // English]

When someone gives you a name, it doesn't necessarily follow they were telling the truth about it being their name, especially if they have reason to lie.

The principle can be generalized to a variety of conversational circumstances.

[Kusanagi's gone clear past exasperation and into resignation.]

Comments

[axemeaquestion]

Couldn't you have just told him, instead of the public service announceme--

... wait, nevermind. Can't say I wouldn't believe other people around here'd believe something like that too.

[electroniccrane]

I did tell him.

[Well, by her standards she did, but Jak needs things spelled out, and she really doesn't do that.]

[axemeaquestion]

So public service announcement, huh.

[electroniccrane]

[If she weren't surrounded by idiots, it wouldn't come up.]

Gullibility is not a good quality to have.

[axemeaquestion]

I hear you.