See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38493318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38493318 When a company of sheisters repeatedly sheists their way throu

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38493318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38493318 When a company of sheisters repeatedly sheists their way through history then assume interactions by them will generally be sheisty. I'd say this is some sort of reverse Hanlon's razor. As a sailor of yore manning a merchant ship, when approached by a frigate flying skull and crossbones I suppose you'd say "but captain we cannot know their true intentions perhaps they wish for some adhoc trade! It would be premature and I dare say prejudiced to assume otherwise!"