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Author: NightNymph

Aug 22nd 2012 at 10:58:11 PM

I'm still slightly confused as to how probability is distinct from the luck, because I know of an example from an episode of the XFiles where the line might be blurred between the two types described. In the episode, a guy had incredibly good luck, but at the same time, that meant someone around him had to have bad luck to balance it out, similar to the anime example from Rognik above. The guy explained it as being a balance of probabilities type thing, and he was obsessed with probability because of this. He could not control the power, however, meaning that people he cared about around him could get bad luck, and potentially hurt, when something occurred where he needed good luck. So good luck did happen to him, but a law of averages/ probability thing was also involved and he had no control over where the bad luck would fall. He could only guess that it would be somewhat equal to his good luck. (And this was generally the case - if good luck was needed to save his life, often this would mean someone else nearby would end up seriously hurt or dead while the "luck" was saving him.)

I am assuming in this case that it would most likely fall under the "luck" one, but the fact that probability is also involved a bit is kind of bugging me.