Douglas Roberts wrote:
A good friend will lie for you in court if you committed murder.
A true friend will help you bury the body.
There's "I trust your judgment" which could mean (say, in an academic
setting) that one is capable in some domain or even `thinks right'
(capable in many domains), and also the special case of "I trust your
judgment" in the social (a.k.a. mafia) sense which means that one
understands the relevant social constraints within the clique and
relative to other cliques. Friends/enemies may fail to provide
good/bad outcomes when they operate outside certain constrained contexts
(fail in the first sense). The idea of being `trustworthy' implies a
social clique with arbitrary values and investments, but also capability.
Marcus
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