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When faced with the choice of trusting a stranger, you turned it down, then made the decision about the lack of trust in the world?

Trust in strangers has never been easy in the US. If something is to change, it has to start individually.

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This falls into the domain of the ethics of care. Sure change needs to start some place, but it doesn't need to be done recklessly. Nobody does anybody any favours by putting themselves in dangerous situations. To care for other people, to give them the attention they need you need to prepare yourself for it first.

Just making the point it’s a bit like someone in traffic complaining about all the other ppl on the road! :)

I believe you are understanding the opposite of what was said.

I understood it as "there cannot be trust anymore" - mostly because different people are at risk of becoming a victim in different ways: from a crime itself, or from being falsely accused of committing a crime.

Individuals will act in a way that makes sense for them. Asking them to "just trust more" does not solve the problem - it needs to be addressed at the root (education, communities), which goes far beyond the individual level.

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