> Distrusting everyone is as unskeptical and illiterate as trusting everyone. I hate to take the wind out of your sails because you do have a good point that

> Distrusting everyone is as unskeptical and illiterate as trusting everyone. I hate to take the wind out of your sails because you do have a good point that I think people should pay attention to it but in a literal sense what you're saying is incorrect with respect to the both history of philosophy[1] and just the dictionary definition of the word[2]. What you're talking about is critical thinking, not skepticism. Skepticism is literally a position of general distrust within some domain or even globally. It's probably best not to conflate the two concepts. 1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/ 2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skepticism https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skepticism