Trust-building always risks betrayal and remains a perilous undertaking.

Evidence

Once such structures were built they might in due course relapse into occasions for confidence. But until they have been built the project of erecting them will remain as perilous and as urgent an exercise in the pragmatics of trust and betrayal as any staged in the mountains of the High Atlas (Gellner, this volume). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1270

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Gellner’s High Atlas citation inside the very book the reader is mining — connects the trust-and-betrayal pragmatics to tribal honor systems that depend on observability.

Related

• Trust structures may later givver way to simple confidence (similarity 0.86)
• Trust’s interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems (similarity 0.83)
• Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.82)
• Trust relationships must be built gradually through small steps because of environmental contingency. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust requires both freedom to betray and constraint making the relationship worthwhile. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust requires genuine vulnerability and the partner’s real interest in betraying it (similarity 0.80)
• Trust grows out of the specific relationship between the parties (similarity 0.80)
• Building mutual trust requires confronting risk rather than avoiding it (similarity 0.80)
• Trust and trustworthiness are asymmetrical because only trusting carries significant risk of exploitation (similarity 0.80)
• Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.80)
• Trust can only be rebuilt by honestly prioritizing shared risk reduction. (similarity 0.80)
• Trust requires that reality’s conditions and the strains of commitment stay manageable (similarity 0.80)
• Defining trust requires grounding it in mutual dependency relations (similarity 0.80)
• Trust cannot be paired with obligation as promises are (similarity 0.80)
• Trust sits between faith and confidence, where evidence is balanced by affectivity. (similarity 0.80)