[Mars]

For myself, I don't find this hard to answer. I have faith in my friends and god, no faith in anyone else.

But here in lies the issue. . . what is this faith? I myself don't believe in a deity, but if you do, surely you don't trust God to look out for your earthly interests in the least; and your friends certainly don't make you a priority in everything they do.

People can be mostly depended to follow patterns, but rarely are such patterns so absurdly bad or good to be thought of as faith.

[Rodo]

A fair point. Yes, it happens. Yes, its standard human response. The difference? I, and I'm sure others do this too, realize they are passing judgement when they have no right to, nor the knowledge necessary to do so, and stop. They rethink their opinions, say to themselves, "I know nothing about this person," and they move on. That, IMO, is what people should do, instead of adopting this "we're  all assholes" pack mentality we're so fond of.

Of course, the mentality that leads you to think you can't trust anyone is in no way benefic (i guess), our society stands on the mutual respect and collaboration basis...even when it seems that it's not founded on that at all.
But note that you do have the right to pass judgement whenever you want, even without knowledge or reasons to back it up with, well.. that's what I like to think.

[Mongoose]

I wound up going with the third option.  Just by looking around throughout my life, I've seen examples of humanity at its worst, and humanity at its best.  The thing is, though, whenever a segment of humanity shows its worst, it seems like a lot more people step in and show its best.  I'm inclined to give most people the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise; any other path sets you on the fast-track to total cynicism.

[Nuke]

the only people i trust are cats, and i barely trust them

[Rodo]

the only people i trust are cats, and i barely trust them

Your trust is missplaced, cats are no people.

also, dogs ftw.

[NGTM-1R]

Faith is belief in the absence of proof, and I refuse to believe in people absent proof.

S-99 does not exist!

[Nuke]

the only people i trust are cats, and i barely trust them

Your trust is missplaced, cats are no people.

also, dogs ftw.

**** dogs! and **** people too!

[S-99]

But here in lies the issue. . . what is this faith?

NGTM-1R answered it best.

Faith is belief in the absence of proof, and I refuse to believe in people absent proof.

S-99 does not exist!

I am electrons stored on some server to do my own automated doing, like judgefloro. Unlike the floro AI, i'm not driven crazy by dwarves, but perhaps search engine spiders instead.

[Grizzly]

I trust everyone unconditionally, unless there is considerable evidence that someone can not be trusted.

[Locutus of Borg]

-10^100000000000000000

wow that's a lot of faith

thats a lot of antifaith

The result is a very large positive number

[Nuke]

-10^100000000000000000

wow that's a lot of faith

thats a lot of antifaith

The result is a very large positive number

oops. yea i think i left something out. ****ing math!

[watsisname]

Actually you had it correct the first time.  There's no parentheses around the -10.  So the Big Book of Math Rules says that it is supposed to be read by default as -(10^evenpower), not (-10)^evenpower.  The result is negative.
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