Trust must be well based on others’ general motivation not to defect

Evidence

The next step after this is to claim that, in general, people will not trust others enough to bring about cooperation unless their assurance is to some extent well based: that is to say, unless people are also in general motivated, one way or another, not to defect if they are in a nondependent position. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 179

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘well based’ requirement is precisely what Hardin’s observable constraints claim asserts and what blindness undermines in Saramago.