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" She didn't like mistrusting people. Once upon a time, she'd believed in them, their inherent deep-down goodness. She'd treated it as both a fact and her guiding principle. Except for the rare sociopaths, people went bad by conditioning and environment, not by nature. If you got them away from the bad (poverty, sickness, lack of education) and guaranteed their basic wants would be met, that's when the true face of humanity emerged. People would work together, help one another, move forward as a community. "
― Edward W. Robertson , Cut Off (Breakers, #5)