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[heir_of_fire]

A pertinent question for current events; when do you stop trusting someone's word? What merit is reputation, versus personal experience?

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[find_my_truth]

It depends on who you're talking about really.

As for merit... Why would you ever trust someone some else TELLS you you should?

[heir_of_fire]

What does it depend on?

That's another issue; how much do you trust anyone's word in general? About their own experience, about what they've heard, about their thoughts.

Reputation is formed by what people say about the things they experience, reputation can be ruined by lies, but i can be bolstered by lies as well.

At the same time people take reputation very seriously. A bad reputation isn't going to get you far, and a good one will open doors.

[find_my_truth]

I'll use my own experiances for a basis here. Let's say I have two friends. One is a polite, kind young woman. The other is a rash, but good hearted young man. Both do the same thing to me: Attack me when I wasn't looking.

I would trust the young man more afterwards, because sudden, and illogical actions are common for him. He thinks on instinct instead of REALLY thinking.

While the woman, if she attacked me, probably thought it through, planned it. Do you understand?

As for the second... reputation is important. It can open doors and give you an idea of how to react to certain people. But that's not trust. It's NEVER trust.

[heir_of_fire]

The first part is fair enough. Knowing an attack on you was planned rather than impulsive makes a difference.

But reputation affects opinion, and trust. Someone with a reputation as a double-crosser will never be immediately met with open arms or without suspicion. Someone with a reputation for honesty is more likely to be asked to judge and arbitrate, to be given trust more easily.

It doesn't matter if the reputation is based on facts.

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[ttly_polska]

Reputation, like, doesn't mean jack. I mean, for all you know, people are just being lame and spreading lies about someone, you know?

...Then again, someone could totally have a bad rep because they're actually an asshole. So I like, don't know? You've totally got to know someone before you can be sure.

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[heir_of_fire]

But would you avoid someone with a bad reputation? Or risk seeing if it's based on lies or fact?

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[ttly_polska]

It like, totally depends what that reputation's for. If like, the whole world says they're gonna like, I don't know, cut my head off, keep it as a trophy, desecrate the body and dump it in a river or something? Yeah, totally not touching that. But if like, people say other sorts of stuff, and they don't seem bad to me from the beginning, I'd totally want to figure out what's going on there.

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[heir_of_fire]

And what if they have the people who defend them fooled, and do end up as evil as their reputation generally claims?

[thedevilsmile]

I suppose it really depends on the circumstances of said situation. Then again, who knows? Its all in the mind.

[heir_of_fire]

Rather vague, Quartermaster.

[thedevilsmile]

What can I say? You can't trust everything everyone says after all - but neither can you just toss their words aside as nonsense.

[heir_of_fire]

Guilty until proven innocent? That's one way to approach people.

[but_inevitable]

From my experience, I find that putting your trust in anyone is pretty risky. You can know someone all your life and defend everything they say, but in the end, you never really know if someone's playing you or not until you've found out that they are.

On the opposite end, some people are absolutely guileless, and some reputations are entirely undeserved. I think it's best just to keep vigilant and take anything anyone tells you with a grain of salt.

[heir_of_fire]

I have to say I more or less agree. But what brought you to that conclusion?

[but_inevitable]

I'm a professional adventurer, and sometimes my companions have been... less than favorable.

[heir_of_fire]

Ever learned a way to figure out when you're being lied to?

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[thesnakecharm]

Interesting questions, Uchiha.

What d'ya need?

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[heir_of_fire]

Call me a curious person.

Just checking up on you.

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[thesnakecharm]

Do you expect an answer from me on that?

...Checking up, huh? I assume you heard the news that we're not getting dragged across the border--for now?

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[heir_of_fire]

Not really, though I think what you'd have to say would probably be interesting.

Yes. Did you expect it?