A Man With A Past Or A Man With No Past?

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You are sitting in an empty bar (in a town you've never before visited), drinking Bacardi with a soft-spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself. You ask your acquaintance who the new man is. "Be careful of that guy," you are told, "he is a man with a past". A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar; he also sits alone. Again you ask your acquaintance who this man is. "Be careful of that guy, too," he says, "he is a man with no past". Which of these two people would you trust less?