When reading the book Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan I was shocked by one
illuminating factor. Why in the world would you trust a stranger and
invite them into your house? Or the more pressing question, who would
leave their daughter, their only daughter, with a stranger? The only
conclusion I could come up with is that people were a lot more trusting
back then in almost everything. They didn't worry about a stranger
trying to take advantage of them, or being violated in any way.
We have come so far in that we no longer would trust a stranger for
anything. Our culture has changed so much over the past 200 years, that
we can no long can trust a stranger to help us without suspecting some
underlying motive in their actions. Will there ever be time that we can
trust strangers again? Although our cultural is constantly changing, I
have a feeling that this will be one aspect of it that will always be
the same. Never trust a stranger.
You make a very good point. We live in a society today where trust is hard to come by. Our lives and surroundings are filled with so much greed, lust and evil that trust is a difficult thing to gain and very easy to lose.
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