We should teach children to ask from an early age: "Do you trust unsupervised human nature in others to always act beneficially towards your interests?" Sadly,

We should teach children to ask from an early age: "Do you trust unsupervised human nature in others to always act beneficially towards your interests?" Sadly, primary and even secondary schools no longer commonly read the old classical works to cast a jaundiced eye towards unchecked human nature, to drive home the point to children that regardless of the era, form of government, technology, etc., unchecked human nature is never to be trusted for the foreseeable future (backed by copious data points over the entirety of recorded human history).