Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained

Evidence

In conclusion, trusting a person means believing that when offered the chance, he or she is not likely to behave in a way that is damaging to us, and trust will typically be relevant when at least one party is free to disappoint the other, free enough to avoid a risky relationship, and constrained enough to consider that relationship an attractive option. In short, trust is implicated in most human experience, if of course to … If distrust is complete, cooperation will fail among free agents. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2729

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the operative definition of trust as vulnerability to another’s freedom combined with bounded exit options.
• XREF: The ‘free to disappoint, constrained enough to stay’ balance is directly what collapses in Saramago’s epidemic of blindness. — connects to: Trust is the juridical presupposition under which mandate powers ruled — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 89