This is a weird way to justify it. I told macOS to run that program because I trust it. If macOS trusts me then it transitively trusts the program I told it to

This is a weird way to justify it. I told macOS to run that program because I trust it. If macOS trusts me then it transitively trusts the program I told it to run. In other words macOS doesn't trust me to validate programs before I try to run them.