Honour and virtue alone can guarantee debtor reliability absent coercion

Evidence

The mechanisms which motivate cooperation in any form of human endeavour, as Bernard Williams explains elsewhere in this volume, comprise four basic elements: coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds. People, that is, may decide to cooperate (1) for fear of sanctions; (2) because cooperation enhances their mutual economic interests; (3) because they have general reasons, whether cultural, moral or religious, to believe that cooperation is good irrespective of sanctions and rewards; and finally (4) because they are related to one another by bonds of kin or friendship. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceived moral obligation does not guarantee trust; Coercion and interests alone compel cooperation even without shared values; Legal obligation differs from mere coercion by threat of force — Ronald M. Dworkin, The Model of Rules, 40 (+7 more)

Related

• Coercion and interests alone compel cooperation even without shared values (similarity 0.86)
• Cooperation rests on coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds (similarity 0.86)
• Trust requires both freedom to defect and constraints that make cooperation attractive (similarity 0.81)
• Cooperation has no single solution; motivations combine and overdetermine action (similarity 0.81)
• Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Believed moral compunction in another gives strong reason to rely on them #corroborates (0.85)
• Perceived moral obligation does not guarantee trust #qualifies (0.82)
• Moral character and trustworthiness are only weakly correlated #contradicts (0.80)
• Cooperation rests on coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds #contradicts (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202
• Coercion and interests alone compel cooperation even without shared values #contradicts (0.78)
• Law substitutes for trust where trustworthiness fails against endgame incentives #qualifies (0.78)
• Legal obligation differs from mere coercion by threat of force #expands (0.75) — Ronald M. Dworkin, The Model of Rules, 40