"A personal trait?" So far, he hadn't found Kirk to be a distrustful person, though he may have originally read their encounter wrong thanks to the Shimmer at the time.

However, he had seen that plenty of people here were particularly hot headed.

"Well... I have to reverse psychology one of them, and the others will probably pull in the same direction between yelling, crying and throwing objects at each other." He offered a well-meaning shrug. "You know, politics..."