What do you know about people you don’t know?

[cjsmith]

What do you folks think or guess when you don’t know someone?

Elsewhere I wrote:

I have some vague baseline sort-of-trust of people I don’t know well. MOST of them aren’t psychopaths. MOST won’t steal my stuff if they’re in my house for an hour. MOST will try to hide their misogyny from female-appearing persons. That sort of thing. And then I’m always on the lookout for signals that a stranger does indeed fit this model. It’s as if there’s a Generic Human in my mind, and I make a lot of guesses about what that Generic Human is likely to do.

What are some of your guesses about Generic Humans? Small or large, positive or negative - comment away!

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Comments

[amaebi]

Boy, a lot of mine have been heavily jaundiced by the existence and burgeoning of Trumpies and their allies.

[cjsmith]

Oh goodness yes. It has definitely colored things. (Orange, I suppose. It’s colored my view of the world orange.)

Edit: Which makes “jaundiced” a particularly apt term... :)