Trust cannot be demanded but only offered through vulnerability

Evidence

Whoever trusts has to keep control over his own preparedness to accept the risks involved. He must make it clear to himself, if only to reassure himself, that he is not trusting unconditionally but rather within limits and in proportion to specific, rational expectations. It is himself he must curb and control when he puts his trust in someone or something. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trust requires genuine vulnerability and the partner’s real interest in betraying it; Trust cannot be demanded, only given freely like a present; Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161 (+11 more)

Related

• Trust requires genuine vulnerability and the partner’s real interest in betraying it (similarity 0.91)
• Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk (similarity 0.90)
• Testing trust requires a concrete setting and visible relation to one’s own risk decisions (similarity 0.88)
• Actors control only their preparedness to trust, not the trusted reality (similarity 0.87)
• Trust belongs to knowledge, so it cannot be offered, demanded, or withheld (similarity 0.86)
• Trust cannot be demanded but only offered through a risky advance (similarity 0.85)
• Readiness to trust itself varies and is not a fixed precondition (similarity 0.85)
• Trust is willed action taken despite an information deficit. (similarity 0.84)
• Trusting action increases one’s vulnerability to another whose behavior is uncontrolled (similarity 0.84)
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment (similarity 0.84)
• Trust involves a calculable asymmetry of possible harm, while hope does not (similarity 0.84)
• Building mutual trust requires confronting risk rather than avoiding it (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is a degree of expected probability, not a separate decision layered onto risk. (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is a theory about another’s future performance based on their claims (similarity 0.83)
• Trust is not chosen, a gamble, or an investment; only actions are (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Trust cannot be demanded, only given freely like a present #corroborates (0.90)
• Trust cannot be governed by clear-cut ethical instruction #expands (0.55)
• Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk #expands (0.50) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161
• Trust is won by a transformative rather than conforming response to expectations #expands (0.45)