[Note: you post is intentionally poetic, so I’ll let myself be intentionally poetic while answering this:]
Would you trust someone without a shadow?
The correct answer is, I think, “don’t care”. On Friday night you dance with a Gervais-sociopath. On Saturday you build a moon rocket together and use it to pick up groceries. Do you “trust” the rocket to be “good”? No, but you don’t need to.
The trust you have to have is that the person you are building with won’t take the partially built rocket and and finish it for themselves to go off to a gambling den. That they too actually want to get groceries and aren’t just saying that they do to gain your cooperation. You want to avoid cursing their sudden but inevitable betrayal.
[Note: you post is intentionally poetic, so I’ll let myself be intentionally poetic while answering this:]
The correct answer is, I think, “don’t care”. On Friday night you dance with a Gervais-sociopath. On Saturday you build a moon rocket together and use it to pick up groceries. Do you “trust” the rocket to be “good”? No, but you don’t need to.
The trust you have to have is that the person you are building with won’t take the partially built rocket and and finish it for themselves to go off to a gambling den. That they too actually want to get groceries and aren’t just saying that they do to gain your cooperation. You want to avoid cursing their sudden but inevitable betrayal.
You do want to get the groceries right?