I’m not your gullible mark. I’ll worry about you as I see fit - not as you dictate.

Oh this is very interesting. I meant you do not need worry about my safety. As you seemed to be keen on "curing" me of my "naive" ways, convincing you of yours, seeing the whole world as nothing but enmity. It didn't even occur to me that it could be read the other way around. How did you come to that interpretation?

No we don’t - I can’t even make sense of this line.

Someone who is harmless has no way to defend themselves. They will be afraid little tiny chihuahuas throwing their ire at anyone that they ever meet, considering all to be more powerful than them, that ire will be directed inside into self-hatred or outside into anger, but it's still the same helplessness.

If you are not harmless, however, you can find safety, even in dicey situations, in your capacity to get out of them on your own terms. It's the martial artists who is not impressed by chest thumping, and see no need to engage in that practice: If a punch flies their way they're going to react, they can trust the back of their mind to deal with it. Any worry there might be does not need to cross the threshold of consciousness because they have achieved unconscious competence. That enables peacefulness even in a biker bar.

Human beings are incapable of being genuine to those they do not consider their equal.

Are humans fake to their pets, to their children? To their frail elders?

I have been branded infinitely beneath all others, a brand enforced by society itself.

How much do you yourself enforce that brand?

and nothing anyone can say will change my mind.

...never mind you just answered that.