Trust is important, but it is also dangerous. It is important because it allows us to depend on others—for love, for advice, for help with our plumbing - especially when we know that no outside force compels them to give us these things. But trust also involves the risk - that people we trust will not pull through for us, since if there were some guarantee they would pull through, then we would have no need to trust them. Trust is therefore dangerous. What we risk while trusting is the loss of valuable things that we entrust to others, including our self-respect perhaps, which can be shattered by the betrayal of our trust.
Because trust is risky, the question of when it is warranted is of particular importance. “Warranted” meaning justified or well-grounded meaning, respectively, that the trust is rational ( based on good evidence) or that it successfully targets a trustworthy person. If trust is warranted in these senses, then the danger of it is either minimized as with justified trust or eliminated altogether as with well-grounded trust. But alas, the Trust may not be warranted in a particular situation because it is simply not plausible; the conditions necessary for it do not exist, as is the case when people feel only antagonism toward one another. And this happens - Morning, Noon & Nite .
Happy New Year -
