A lot of our problems with trust - in relationships, politics, and consensus protocols come from conceptualising it as a binary trust/no trust thing, or a simple spectrum. How I think about trust, a level system:
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1- I trust that you are not lying; that you believe that what you are saying is true (honesty)
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2- I trust that you have the power over yourself and/or others to fulfil the promises you made (dependability)
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3- Since words are vague, I trust that given different situations and interpretations you will keep the spirit of your promises (integrity)
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4- With or without promises, I believe you will try to act in my best interests (love)
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5- I believe that you have the desire AND power to act in my best interests (compassion)
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This came from thinking about relationships, but I think one of the problems with political/economic systems is that we never really get past level 2 (dependability). And we never expect to be able to.
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Like the girl who needs to set her standards higher and stop sleeping with men who screw her over, we need to learn how to have higher standards for what kinds of trust are possible. But how?
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Replying to @autotrnslucence
Do you view these are necessarily built upon each other or could someone (or institution) embody a higher level but fail on a lower level?
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I think they mostly build on each other but unorthodox structures are possible. Like, I could imagine someone who loved me still not being very dependable, so I wouldn't trust them to get things done when they said even if I knew they had my best interests at heart.
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