Promises typically regulate relations with known people, not strangers

Evidence

Personal bonds and moral values can only function as encouragements to action and cooperation if they are concepts in which we believe. Motive and belief belong together here: they are part of a person’s identity, they arise out of his passions and feelings. It is constituent of the definition of personal bonds that - within the limits of character and skill - one trusts one’s friends more deeply than strangers (see Hart and Hawthorn). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840; Strangers, not cheaters, are the main obstacle to trust.; Modern wealth consists of symbolic promises exchanged among strangers. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 31

Related

• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds (similarity 0.90)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.85)
• Promises to genuine strangers are rare and require strong enforcement devices. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust governs dealings only where kinship and contract cannot constrain others (similarity 0.81)
• Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.80)
• Friendship works as trust because knowledge is easy to obtain. (similarity 0.79)
• Trust between strangers cannot rest on friendship’s personal knowledge model. (similarity 0.79)
• Friendship’s transparent motives can extend into wider social settings. (similarity 0.79)
• A trustworthy reputation can be exploited because it is imperfectly known (similarity 0.78)
• Love lets trust escalate fast without requiring shared associates or community support (similarity 0.78)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds #corroborates (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840
• Strangers, not cheaters, are the main obstacle to trust. #contradicts (0.80)