asapjoshyy implicitly claims ignorance of the adage that “trust is hard to earn, easy to lose”.  I myself would add, “...and nigh impossible to repair”.

There are certain empirical facts about trust known by experience to anyone over the age of thirty.  E.g., that people who give implicitly self-interested elaborate speeches about the importance of trustworthiness (inevitably followed by proclamations of how trustworthy they are) are ipso facto untrustworthy in the extreme.  Also, the above-stated aphorism.

Moreover:  There are so very many two-legged creatures on this Earth who are for some reason deemed “people”.  If any of them violates my trust, why should I ever grant second chances?  There are too many others out there who are potentially untrustworthy, and too few who are actually trustworthy.  I will never have an opportunity to give a first chance to more than a negligible fraction of all those people.  Why waste my time with anybody who has proved untrustworthy even once?

More generally, I grant neither mercy nor forgiveness to people who did things they knew or should have known were wrong.  Those are not accounted virtues in my religion.  Here apropos, I still remember people whom I know to have cheated in school as teenagers.  I would not trust them in business, even decades later.  They were inferior in character then, and will be now.  I will instead try trusting people who never cheated on school tests.  There are plenty enough who, at least, where never that dishonest.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned.  No, wait—sorry, I forgot, I am 15 years old.  My bad, LOL.  Just prankin’ ya.

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LOL.