Look, if your argument for "nobody should ever trust anybody ever" is

[conuly]

"Something bad happened to somebody once, and when she ran to a stranger for help, she got raped" then at the very least you're going to have to give me this person's name or a link to the news story or something. Normally I'd say that thing about anecdotes and data, but without any identifying information this isn't even an anecdote.

Also, even if that story is 100% true as reported and actually happened to an actual person, never trusting anybody ever is still a very unhealthy way to live. I don't think the cost:benefit ratio actually adds up.

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[silveradept]

It doesn't work out, and worse still, if you behave like you don't trust anybody, them you're going to have other people behave as though you are untrustworthy, and the feedback loop continues.

[conuly]

I had somebody once, a kid, tell me that hardly anybody would've handed her the five dollars she'd dropped on the ground without noticing. And I said "Well, wouldn't you have handed it back to me?" but she didn't get the point.