> Even the basic logic is flawed.... That coders can't be trusted to handle pointers, but somehow can be trusted to write "safe" unsafe rust.

Who said anything about trust? The purpose of unsafe blocks is that you have specific, limited areas of your code that can be audited for safety. With C your entire codebase needs to be audited.

Also, other languages “trusting” people to use pointers correctly has gone pretty badly.

The only fanaticism I'm seeing here is you going through the entire thread and picking fights and calling people who use and advocate a language names.

"fans" "fanatics" "cult"

I'm not sure what the point of this way of talking is. Rust is a tool. Many advocate for it because we've worked for a long time in ... other tools. Which had avoidable problems. I had a two decade career with C++ before Rust finally became mainstream enough to get paid to work in. Going back here and there is usually... unpleasant.