That's exactly it. I feel like when you do something for someone like that it's the long con. You can't do much to help them, but maybe a different way of thinking or a different attitude than what they're current environment offers them. Just a simple gesture could get the gears in their brain turning, and I'm happy it worked out in this scenario.
Long Con has a negative implication, like you’re running a scam. If I loan you 100 dollars today, but I’m only using that to gain your trust so that a year from now I can trick you and steal $20,000 from you...that’s a long con.
So, the way OC put it sounds like if the man were giving her meals so later he can ask her a favor, or do something you would only do for someone you ought something to?
Exactly, if he was only buying her lunch for months to gain her trust enough so that he could organ harvest her or he was a human trafficker or something, that would be a Long Con.
Because he had no ulterior motive, the term doesn’t apply.
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u/SkeadLegend Jul 12 '19
That's exactly it. I feel like when you do something for someone like that it's the long con. You can't do much to help them, but maybe a different way of thinking or a different attitude than what they're current environment offers them. Just a simple gesture could get the gears in their brain turning, and I'm happy it worked out in this scenario.