Even in dath ilan, having someone push to bet orders of magnitude more is sketchy. It’s doubly sketchy in the case of Alice’s story where it’s “Some lady I met at this bar” versus someone who Bob knows, and ”… that’s how I got my high-status job” is triply sketchy.
Even in dath ilan, having someone push to bet orders of magnitude more is sketchy. It’s doubly sketchy in the case of Alice’s story where it’s “Some lady I met at this bar” versus someone who Bob knows, and ”… that’s how I got my high-status job” is triply sketchy.
Perhaps. Although it feels to me like it’s a reasonable thing to suspend disbelief on.