2006-08-20 10:25:12 · 12 answers · asked by UnderstandingLife 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
We have the ability to trust people...that is innate. Do we do it? You'd be an idiot. Just when you let your guard down...that is when you get screwed. (Sorry, terribly jaded).
2006-08-20 13:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by Jenny Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In general, it's hard to answer! But trusting others is important!!! It's human! Trusting others is just part of humanity just as is the ability to survival, or the ability to love.
Without trust there wouldn't be love for instance! And where is no love involved there is no life!
Also, believe it or not, I'm trusting you right now just by answering this question! I'm trusting you because I believe this is important to you - the answers of others - to this question and you don't just ask this to get a kick out of it or whatever. But because it interests you. And by me answering it, makes me trust you at least as far as this question is concerned! Or do you think ALL of the people on yahoo ask all these questions and lie about everything? I don't think so. You see what i mean?
2006-08-20 10:34:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people I don't trust like George W. Bush.
2006-08-20 20:29:51 · answer #3 · answered by tyrone b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find trusting other people very hard, because there are so many dishonest people I have met and so many now with some kind of hidden agenda.
2006-08-20 10:36:10 · answer #4 · answered by ncgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One needs to score adequately high on two independent scales before you can think about trusting them. 1. Friendly intentions 2. Adequate smarts, intellect and capabilities.
If one is lacking in either, you may get messed over.
2006-08-20 13:44:35 · answer #5 · answered by Harry S. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up to a point, yah, when it's family or close friends. I don't trust strangers any further than I can throw them, which is usually not very far.
2006-08-20 10:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if you want to....but letting your guard down can be a real ***** around the wqrong people. I say get to know them and then decide if you can trust them....if you need time to get to know people even if you feel pressured just say so...trust is a great thing...jsut don't abuse it or overuse it.
2006-08-20 10:32:53 · answer #7 · answered by darkmatter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Short, Short Answer is: Nope.
The Less Short Answer is: Generally speaking, in the 21st century, at least in the United States, people are so high-strung on the *competitive* thing that trusting others is at best a neutral act looked upon as "quaint" and at worst an act of self-sabotage. Meaning? You can trust people--to betray you, and to *not* have anyone's best interest at heart. At all, not even their own.
The Least Short Answer is: No, and this is one of the most *broken* things about our kind.
Consider the instinct that all *other* social animals, fish, birds, mammals, demonstrate. The biological term for it is "tit for tat", and it applies to any species that is *not* absolutely in the *depths* of hormone-driven nuttiness like a mating-rutting season thing....or that is not absolutely territorial.
What "tit for tat" means is this. You *start* from a position of trust, assuming that any given fellow member of your *own* species is not out to hurt you. Then from there you "return the favor", if the other is good to you, you respond in kind, and if the other is bad to you, you respond in kind and/or withdraw completely.
EVERY other social species on the planet does this...except for humans and higher primates (gorillas, orang utans, chimpanzees and bonobos/pygmy chimps). In our case, basically, sexual and territorial concerns *trump* "tit for tat". We let hormones and fear dictate our social responses to our own kind, and with humans in particular we let our own connivances and contrivances *concoct* all manner of proxies and substitutes so that instead of fighting for mates and territory, we go to War for Oil, for example.
So yeah. We don't trust each other. We only start from a positive position (of trust) in the clear absence of mating and/or territorial threats, and as "smart" as Homo sapiens is, we are *never* clear of those.
Sucks being us, I know. :) Carry on.
2006-08-20 12:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we can trust SOME people, but not EVERYONE!!! it takes time to know the depth of a person's confidence.
2006-08-20 10:56:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the person actions and how they treat u . but it good 2 have your guard up all the time . better safe than sorry.
2006-08-20 10:37:55 · answer #10 · answered by johnny girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋