Deviant initiative signals trustworthiness because it assumes and strengthens existing trust

Evidence

What proof of being deserving of trust can anyone give by saying that he has never been in prison? Against this, deviant behaviour, initiative or criticism are attributed personally. They can only occur if the social order can at the same time offer security, for such behaviour assumes the existence of relationships of trust and strengthens them by utilizing them. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 193

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Inverts the intuition that trustworthiness is proven by conformity; it is proven by safe deviation.

Related

• Norm-conforming behaviour cannot generate trust; only risky deviance can. (similarity 0.84)
• Institutions should cultivate trustworthiness, not trust itself (similarity 0.82)
• Misplaced trust costs far more than forgone trust, making distrust come more quickly (similarity 0.82)
• Optimism about others’ trustworthiness is self-reinforcing through gained experience (similarity 0.82)
• Trusting action increases one’s vulnerability to another whose behavior is uncontrolled (similarity 0.81)
• Trust grounded in false knowledge cannot be an intrinsic good (similarity 0.80)
• Winning trust requires participating socially and absorbing others’ expectations into one’s self-presentation (similarity 0.80)
• Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.80)
• Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.80)
• Testing trust requires a concrete setting and visible relation to one’s own risk decisions (similarity 0.80)
• Self-presentation presumes minimum trust, and trust expands possible actions and accumulates as capital. (similarity 0.80)
• Trustworthiness needs no moral groundings to sustain trust (similarity 0.80)
• In simple societies distrust is itself punished as a breach of law. (similarity 0.80)
• Withholding trust feeds a self-reinforcing spiral of lost rational capacity. (similarity 0.80)
• Only incentives, not investment, can genuinely change trustworthiness. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Trust is won by a transformative rather than conforming response to expectations #complicates (0.60) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 241
• Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness #complicates (0.55) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 246
• Winning trust requires participating socially and absorbing others’ expectations into one’s self-presentation #qualifies (0.50) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 240