What is the best reason to trust someone?

[Asmodean]

Ah!

I beat to a slightly different drum, you see. You can not break my trust, just lower the degree of it or cause me to change its levels. For example, if your trust surplus with me reaches zero on a personal level, that does not need to have any effect at all on the trust between us on professional level; at least not from my end.

Compartmentalization. It's a nice thing.

In any case, a question, if you don't mind;

Do you lose trust in people "as a whole," regardless of area of their failure/betrayal/whatever? if that be the case, do you consider trust to be something, which either is or is not?

[Arturo]

If you're talking to me, then I do not have the background to answer that question yet. So far I have only dealt with people on a personal level. I have yet to hold a job for very long. But if I were to go by my first job, then I would say I could trust the Manager at Little Caesars to keep the restaurant running, but I couldn't trust him to treat me with respect. I did a lot of good work despite him yelling at me saying I'm lazy.

[Asmodean]

Yes, my question was directed at you and I got a quality answer. Thanks.

[Sandra Craft]

It takes me awhile to trust anyone  -- I need to develop a history reliable behavior with them first and that can take years.  Until then, I'm willing to be cautiously optimistic about people who seem both friendly and harmless.

[Bad Penny II]

distrust takes energy

[Asmodean]

Only if it's an active condition.

Well, it does in any case, really, but so does... Being alive.