Trust is nearly complete when one party assumes the other’s interests as their own

Evidence

In this case, again, I do not cooperate with you merely because it benefits me to do so; I do it because I want you to benefit. If I go much further and virtually assume your interests as mine, you can trust me almost completely. Ours is then virtually a pure coordination interaction. There might be problems of information and understanding, but there are none of motivation. If I only share your interests to some extent, we may have conflicts despite our love, and those conflicts might finally trump. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 657

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the strong-trust end of the spectrum: encapsulating the other’s interests eliminates motivational conflict, leaving only information problems.
• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s Luhmann/Hardin synthesis — ‘pure coordination interaction’ with zero motivational conflict is the endpoint running opposite to Hobbesian predation in Saramago’s blindness. — connects to: Interests are relational and can include other beings without ceasing to be one’s own. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 558