Trustworthiness can be community-directed rather than partner-directed

Evidence

What was the nature of Vronsky’s concern to repay his gambling debt? It was not merely a reciprocal concern with his gambling partner of the moment. It was, rather, a concern to live up to the standards of behavior of the nineteenth-century Russian aristocratic community of which he was a member. If he failed to repay the debt, he would be embarrassed in that community and would lose standing in it, so that his opportunities within that community would be constrained. He faced a norm of exclusion, a norm that required his submission to the group in various ways at the cost, if he did not submit, of being shunned within the group and perhaps even excluded from the group. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 267

Categorization

• XREF: The community-as-enforcer mechanism pairs with Milgrom’s reputation systems and with Saramago — blindness removes the community’s observational capacity, killing this norm-of-exclusion enforcement. — connects to: Widespread civility and flourishing civil society reduce to shared personal trust
• DEFINE: Defines the distinction between reciprocal concern and community-conformity as alternative trust bases.