Timeline for Everyone believes everything Joe says. How can he get around it?
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | cobaltduck | I was thinking the same thing, since this basically parallels the climax of Ella Enchanted. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | Joshua | Doesn't work. His believing it doesn't make it true either. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 19:38 | comment | added | gatherer818 | @doppelgreener I think that would actually be a good answer. The question is from Joe's perspective - he doesn't want to be a terrible person by mind-controlling everyone around him.... maybe his solution is to use his power to convince himself he's not. It sucks for the people around him, sure, but Joe's happy. Until and unless he gets assassinated, but depending on the reach of his power (i.e. through media), he could just put a comment on a really popular YouTube channel "You want to upvote this comment. You never want to harm Joe Average of Averageville." before he "retires". | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 9:08 | comment | added | doppelgreener | This seems to assume his powers have some reality-warping ability, when it just changes what people believe. If he believes he'll never accidentally use it... that doesn't stop him actually accidentally using it all the time, he just believes he won't ever do it. "Good morning!" - powers activate. Joe to himself: "Wait, did I just use my powers? Oh, hold on, of course not, ha ha, I can never use those accidentally." | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 9:06 | comment | added | Lostinfrance | Since the original post does just says that "people" always believe him, and Joe is undoubtedly a person, that seems a reasonable assumption. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 3:08 | comment | added | March Ho | This assumes the superpower works on himself. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:54 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 2:36 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |