Accepting vulnerability to others is necessary to enjoy maximal non-domination

Evidence

Unless the seed is buried, it shall not bring forth life. And unless people are willing to accept various forms of reliance and to trust themselves personally to one another, in particular to the security offered by the civility of others, they shall not be able to enjoy the best that is available in the way of non-domination. People must be willing to accept an inevitable degree of reliance on the public authorities, trusting ultimately in the virtue of those officials. People must be willing to accept the fact of often having to be vulnerable to others, and often having to trust themselves to the civility of those others not to do them harm. And people must be willing to go along with one another in associations and movements that are essential for republican success but that inevitably require patterns of mutual reliance and personal trust. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1193

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the trust-mechanism threads in the knowledge base — voluntary vulnerability as a productive force, resonating with how sacrifice and trust economies convert exposure into bonds.
• XREF: connects to: Widespread mutual trust alone makes large-scale non-domination freedom possible — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1300; Trusting action increases one’s vulnerability to another whose behavior is uncontrolled; Trust cannot be demanded but only offered through vulnerability (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Trusting action increases one’s vulnerability to another whose behavior is uncontrolled #corroborates (0.88)
• Trust cannot be demanded but only offered through vulnerability #corroborates (0.85)
• Widespread mutual trust alone makes large-scale non-domination freedom possible #expands (0.82) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1300