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Civic honesty around the globe

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209 points ojosilva | 1 comments | 20 Jun 19 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TomMckenny ◴[21 Jun 19 01:55 UTC] No.20239213[source]▶
Remarkable finding.

And it is strange almost everyone, including myself, intuits the opposite. Where does this negative view of people come from?

In that vein, I wonder, when the desk clerk received an empty wallet, if they sometimes thought the money had already been taken and they would be blamed.

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1. iliketosleep ◴[21 Jun 19 03:22 UTC] No.20239630[source]▶
> Where does this negative view of people come from?

Usually, trust is something which must be earned. When we don't have any information about a person, the default position is one of distrust (pending further information), as the cost of being swindled can be significant. A strange side-effect is that we implicitly assume that most people cannot be trusted.