When you grow up in a zero trust society people doing things out of kindness is suspect. During my childhood and early adulthood kindness was a cover for somebody lying to me or trying to scam me nearly 100% of the time, and that stuck with me. It still fucks me up to this day that people being kind to me makes me cagy and want to isolate myself
“I don’t like when people do things to be nice, I like it when they do it transactionally.”
The difference between a high-trust and low-trust society.
When you grow up in a zero trust society people doing things out of kindness is suspect. During my childhood and early adulthood kindness was a cover for somebody lying to me or trying to scam me nearly 100% of the time, and that stuck with me. It still fucks me up to this day that people being kind to me makes me cagy and want to isolate myself