Love permits rapid risk escalation without external social support

Evidence

The lovers need not have known each other for very long, and they need not have a rich array of associates in common to protect them in their risk taking with each other. Their love allows them to escalate the risks they take very fast and relieves them of the need for support from a larger community. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 660

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does the doctor’s wife’s love for her husband operate as this kind of risk-escalation mechanism that lets her act as sole guarantor without community support, given that the whole community is blind?
• XREF: connects to: Broken social ties force individuals to treat love as a self-managed risk venture — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 351