[WarOnPrivacy]

> In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith

The longer I live the more I realize I don't know. For me it means I have to have some trust in the people communicating with me - that they're operating in good faith. More so when their comms are persuasive arguments.

Without my trust + their forthrightness, I have to expend significant time and energy parsing and vetting their statements - for little practical benefit.