I think that we want to believe things that are true, not things that are false, and that people are acting against you if they don't try to coordinate with you around a model of how reality is. Models of the world are not traumatizing. Torturing people in order to teach them is.https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1117994005524910080 …
"Trusting" that the ground beneath your feet will not suddenly disappear is not blind faith or a false belief. I was not saying that alerting people of specific dangers is traumatizing them. "Basal trust" is something you can have even if you know you will die soon.