Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust
Evidence
The second qualification, most evident from the example of Korea, is that it may be possible deliberately if deviously to create trust, which cannot always therefore be seen as a ‘by-product’, as Elster claims; and that at least one way of doing so is the way that Elster, after Tocqueville, does not believe is possible. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666
Categorization
- DEFINE: Challenges Elster’s by-product thesis on trust creation.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666
- XREF: connects to: Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly; Polite deception can actually build rather than undermine trust; Totalitarian regimes can sustain themselves by deliberately cultivating pervasive distrust. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 467 (+9 more)