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    Does probability inspire trust?

    Say you hire a contractor and one side of his face is horribly disfigured. He also gives off a "stench of burnt flesh," if you are sensitive to seeing grilled muscle and expose jawbone. Maybe he jokes about how he makes decisions solely based on the flip of a coin, and encourages you to hope for heads if you want to live.

    Does his reliance on probability inspire trust? Like, if he's truly making decisions via coin flip, he's completely unbiased and you'll be able to estimate the aggregate effect of his actions even if they're totally random? Or is it neutral or even a negative? If a negative, can you explain below?
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    Yes, he lives by rules that make him more trustworthy.
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    Trust-neutral. Size up the man on his own merits.
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    No, his beliefs make him less trustworthy for reason explained below.
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    I hated that part of the movie. I felt like it was so contrived. At least Two-Face is a cooler villain than the Riddler, whose gimmick is telling you what he's going to do next.
    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
      At least Two-Face is a cooler villain than the Riddler, whose gimmick is telling you what he's going to do next.
      Didn't the Joker do the same thing?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Tupac Shakur View Post
        Didn't the Joker do the same thing?
        Not exactly. The Joker's gimmick was really that he had no limits and no rules whatsoever--there was no crime so heinous or horrifying that he wouldn't do it. Hence completely ****ed up stuff like asking one boat to sink the other.

        Also the Joker was trying to make a point to Batman about rules, so he led Batman along and gave him partially correct information in order to get Batman to play his games.
        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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        • #5
          The Riddler's outfit is more heinous and horrifying than any crime The Joker ever committed.

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          • #6
            Joel Shumacher was the real villain of that movie.
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            • #7
              I can't honestly dispute either of those statements.
              If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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