Dad Egbert

It's not really denying anything. I just don't think there's any point in assuming the worst of someone right away. That's a pretty cynical way to look at the world. And I feel like at some point, you start to run into self-fulfilling prophecies where you just start looking for anything bad just to prove yourself right, or where they stop caring about being a good person because it's clear you never believed in them in the first place.