I don't trust...
People whose political views remain staunchly static even as the circumstances around them change. That shows an utter lack of open-mindedness.
People who never question their religion. Blind, unquestioning following is a sign of mental laziness, easily-exploited docility, or both. I don't care what conclusions you come to, if you ever find any at all, just study it, discuss it, and find out why you believe what you do. Your mind is divine, you have every right to question what you've been told.
People who won't try new foods. If other people are eating it, it obviously isn't going to kill you. JUST TRY IT. If I ever have children, they'll starve before I'll tolerate picky eating. Not liking something is one thing, not even trying it is another and demonstrates a complete lack of adventure.
Xenophobes. We are all foreigners outside the U.S., does that automatically make us bad the moment we step outside of our border? No, and it doesn't apply to people born in other countries when they come here, either. They might seem weird to us cos we're not used to them, but different ≠ bad.
People who take everything so seriously. Near as I can tell, there's no law that says everything has to be a federal case. Lighten up once in awhile.
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On the starving kids thing,it's in our family genes to eat anything that gets put in front of us.
I have made a habit of seeking out at least one 'strange' thing a day, whether it is a unique fact, an unfamiliar or out of place occurance or simply IMing you :-)
You can topple empires simply by asking the right question. For this reason there is a whole industry built to discourage critical thinking - it's called marketing. Vance Packard warned us about it in the 1950's in his book "The Hidden Persuaders". If you want to see the modern face of black magick you would do well to study the social psychological underpinnings of modern marketing.
Does that automatically make us bad the moment we step outside of our border?
Yeah, we're pretty much all up to no good!