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I was naively hopeful they could use it to quickly trace the caller and arrest the man.

“How bad could the commute be?” we naively thought.

“That actually made me a bit emotional, because I was like, wow, you're going above and beyond for something that's not your fault… that's how I saw it at the time, naively,” Jack says.

I naively predicted based on societal norms and associated my own happiness to these details.

“They pretend to know, sometimes very naively, what happened to the bodies they are dealing with,” said Gideon Aran, a sociologist at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University who wrote a recent book on the organization.