Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28560344-20160526180542/@comment-25936766-20160619000846

Matilda27593 wrote: People like this tend to think that they're good survivors since they're the opposite of naive. No they don't. Again, both things are unrelated. Most people that think humans/the world/life sucks do not think they're good survivors just for that, not even for not being naive. Hell, cynical is not the opposite of naive.

They think, since they know the "truth" about the world, that they can't be tricked. No they don't. A cynical person won't think that they are inmune to tricks, to be cynical simply means that one stopped expecting any good to happen for the heck of it. Not the same, not at all.

And, since they're cynical and/or paranoid, they feel that they're prepared for anything and won't make the mistake of ever assuming the best of people. Now that's a more accurate assumption. But, still, they don't, being cynical does not mean that one will feel "prepared for anything". Paranoids maybe, but being paranoid won't make someone necesarily feel prepared for anything, it only makes them wary of others.

And Roman never acted like or implied that he was paranoid.

Sorry if this still doesn't make any sense. It's not that it doesn't make sense. It's that it's plain and simply a wrong assumption on cynical mentality, that's the problem.