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How to Know Whom You Can Trust

What is the motivation behind trust?

Credit: Harry Pammer

The Un-Comfort Zone With Robert Wilson
Wed, 11/27/2019 - 12:03
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I recently wrote a column about loyalty, which got me thinking about trust. I wondered who is in my life that I trust, and who that I don’t trust. It didn’t take me long to realize that I trust everyone in my life because I shed those whom I don’t trust.

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As I pondered trust, I recalled a woman I once dated, who told me she was a widow. Later on, I learned from an independent source that she was divorced and not widowed. When I inquired about this discrepancy, she admitted that she was divorced, but that her ex-husband died a year or so after their divorce, so she figured that qualified her as a widow. If she wanted to consider herself a widow, that was fine with me, but the problem was that my trust was broken, and I started questioning the veracity of all her stories. As Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “I'm not upset that you lied to me; I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” Unsurprisingly, a month later, we were no longer dating.

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
—Ernest Hemingway

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Submitted by Bill Pound on Wed, 11/27/2019 - 10:00

Trust

I would add another related topic, Truth.  If I learn that you have accepted "there is no such thing as truth"; then I have also learned that I cannot trust you.  Truth can be very hard to find, but I believe it is out there.  The Golden Rule is a good example.  This rule has been with us for centuries and is a reliable process for getting along with our fellow humans.  Science, properly applied is another way of establishing truth and trust.  But the actions of Professor Michael Mann have been so far from the appropriate methods of science and communication that he and his "hockey stick" cannot be trusted.  And with him the whole anthropogenic global warming field.  Would it were not so.

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