I'm sure most of you have observed this, but there's a game theory answer to the question of trust: https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/ In practice

I'm sure most of you have observed this, but there's a game theory answer to the question of trust: https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/ In practice, distrusting is a matter of worrying about the minority. If you lock anything, you're worried about 1% or 0.1%, maybe less, who will legitimately do something bad. But, the consequences are so heavy that people apply that distrust to everyone.