Legal exemptions destroy state predictability, which erodes communal trust.

Evidence

Somalis spoke of spies, people listening and watching who could report you to al-Shabaab. They could be your neighbors, colleagues, friends, or family. The collapse of a social contract that had once let people feel in control of their lives had wrecked every part of Somali life. Once trust was gone between citizens and their leaders, it slowly vanished among the citizens themselves, and then that distrust corroded the bonds even between people who knew each other intimately. — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 251 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State collapse corroded trust even between intimate acquaintances — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 251; Collapsed trust turned commerce into mutual deception and crippled lending; State enforcement supplanted communal reputation as the guarantor of commercial judgments. — PAUL R. MILGRO, PAUL R. MILGRO - THE ROLE OF…, 173

Related

• State collapse corroded trust even between intimate acquaintances (similarity 0.87)
• Contractual trust fails where state enforcement is sporadic (similarity 0.81)
• A single event dissolved a long-standing neighborly relationship into expulsion (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• State collapse corroded trust even between intimate acquaintances #exemplifies (0.82) — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 251
• Collapsed trust turned commerce into mutual deception and crippled lending #exemplifies (0.78)