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

[cjsmith]

I seem to be fond of overly broad questions! Ah well! :)

[amaebi]

I'm sorry if it felt like having someone be a dick to you. If I was a dick to you, it was inadvertent.

I was going to say, and still will, that you likely do have more specific thoughts about Generic Humans, or categories of such thoughts, and now you're already helpfully spinning one out. :)

[cjsmith]

Oh gosh nonono you're fine!! You have never even once come REMOTELY CLOSE to being awful to me, not once. ♥

I do have TONS of specific thoughts. I would also love to hear everyone else's tons. :)

[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... :)