Might there be different types of trust?
Trust, first of all, within a group or a relationship, regarding common goals, even if the person is not “of good character”? Simon Sinek talks of this.
Are these “fair-weather” friends and “fair-weather” trusted persons in general, subject to a falling out?
And secondly, trust which is based upon a person having an orientation toward empathy, such as what Dr. Albert Schweitzer exemplified when he talked of his reverence for all of life?
As per Wikipedia, it has been said of Dr. Albert Schweitzer:
“The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben.” These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time. In Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote:
Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.
James Brabazon, author of Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, defined Reverence for Life as follows:
Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass—and, of course, every human being. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and owe to all of them the same care and respect, that we wish for ourselves.
Schweitzer made Reverence for Life the basic tenet of an ethical philosophy, which he developed and put into practice. He gave expression to its development in numerous books and publications during his life and also in manuscripts which have recently been published; the main work being his unfinished four-part Philosophy of Culture (German: Kulturphilosophie) subtitled: “The World-view of Reverence for Life”. He also used his hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon to demonstrate this philosophy in practice.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveren…
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And a third type of trust, where one trusts that information is highly accurate?
Here are a couple of questions, for instance: might a person with Down syndrome, or a child of five, be more trustworthy than many an adult, in terms of empathy, but not necessarily someone one can benefit from when it comes to being a “trustworthy” business partner in a particular industry?
And might this be why it is said in Christian scriptures that Jesus had said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” Matthew 19:14, New International Version?
Which might suggest that children have fewer financial burdens, and fewer resources, to even contemplate how they might take advantage of others in ways that an adult could and often can?
And might the same be true for the so-called “illiterate” adult? Or the so-called “country bumpkin” or “fool”‘?
For consider the movie “All the Money in the World”, inspired by the true events of the Getty kidnapping, the kidnapping of the 16-year-old John Paul Getty III: do we believe that a 5-year-old person could even contemplate such a plan?
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This show was created by a West Point graduate who studied electrical engineering there, with the aim of becoming a medical doctor, at first: he then went on to airborne school and was a tank platoon leader in Germany, resigning his commission three years into the five-year typical commitment. A year after resigning, he drove two thousand miles to San Diego to start a new life, including one hundred sessions of psychoanalysis with a Jewish psychoanalyst, six days a week, paid for with significant insurance benefits from working as a typist, for almost minimum wage at an insurance company for three years, there. Money was very tight: entertainment was a movie, a hot-crossed bun, and a coffee, once a week, and gas money to travel….
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