Timeline for Everyone believes everything Joe says. How can he get around it?
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| Sep 16, 2020 at 2:53 | comment | added | cowlinator | I like this answer most, because it makes it easy for Joe to avoid mistakes. It's a simple rule. Always remembering to tell the exact truth and be extremely specific is more error-prone. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 10:12 | comment | added | Kara Potts | A similar answer to a similar problem: smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3730 | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 20:47 | comment | added | celtschk | @Javelin: "I do believe this is a good morning" is a statement about his believes, not about the morning. Therefore in this case the only thing someone would be forced to agree with would the that Joe believes this is a good morning. So if someone told him "Joe doesn't actually think the morning is good" then he would violently disagree. While he may still think the morning isn't good (and possibly wonder why Joe considers this a good morning). | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Javelin | I think it might be possible for someone to interpret this as "I do believe this is a good morning. What are your thoughts on this?". There, they may be forced to agree with what he believes in anyway. Just a possibility. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Dallaylaen | @GaryWalker true, but the superpower implementation may not know about it. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 0:02 | comment | added | do-the-thing-please | What if the questions were open-ended interrogatives, phrased as: "How do you feel about the weather?" | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 22:29 | comment | added | Gary Walker | Good morning, isn't it? Though phrased as a question, it effectively a statement with a request to affirm the statement. | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 22:17 | comment | added | KutuluMike | This is how Kilgrave tries to "be normal" w/ Jessica in Jessica Jones; he consciously avoids ever making declarative statements to her, but couches everything in questions and interpretations. | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 18:25 | comment | added | celtschk | Another possibility would be to start every statement with "I think". Like "I think this will be a great day." | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 18:19 | history | answered | Stephane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |