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The people I trust most (almost completely) are my parents. My brother follows close behind. After that, my cousins, further down, then it's a steep dropoff on the trust continuum to my close friends. Anyone who isn't in those categories gets an infintesimally low amount of trust from me, unless it's required for the situation (but then there are different types of trust).
People are far too different in their thinking from me for me to trust them, even if I believe their intentions are noble. What they consider good does not mean I will like it. I also think a lot of people are stupid, then there is another chunk of utterly selfish people (these categories can overlap), et cetera. One might say I have trust issues. I think they're not so bad as to cripple me horribly, yet they serve a purpose.
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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