Trust requires that reality’s conditions and the strains of commitment stay manageable

Evidence

The second reason to believe that an extensive and enduring trust is not easy to create follows from the first. Williams again makes it clear. He asks which combinations of motive make sense in which circumstances, and suggests that a necessary condition of any combination making sense in any defined set of circumstances is that the four reality conditions should not be too difficult to meet, and also that the strains of commitment — the strains, in any real set of circumstances, of and on what will be our various and perhaps not consistent commitments — should not be too great. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1507

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘strains of commitment’ — the tension arising from a person’s various, possibly inconsistent commitments under real circumstances.