IVIV: Trust

[rich]

On 9/15/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
> "Luckily for you, that's a sanction they prefer to exercise
> only against their own. Given the sorts of business they engage
> in, without absolute trust in one's associates all may too
> swiftly revert to anarchy. Outsiders like yourself tend to
> get the benefit of the doubt, and you in turn may trust their
> word without any hesitation."
>
> Crocker is of course one of the bad guys of IV, but what he
> says here isn't entirely a crock of shit. I
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which is what happened to organizations like the Sicilian crime
families in the US , Crocker here putting forth the ideals of the
so-called Mustache Petes--yr word was yr bond, honor, never killed
women/children so forth

> At any rate, Doc takes Crocker's lesson to heart, and when
> Denis asks him why on earth he believes Crocker's promise
> that the crooks won't hurt anybody, he says:
>
> "What, I should only trust good people? man, good people
> get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody
> evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense. I mean
> I wouldn't give odds either way." (349)
>
> I trust y'all have an opinion on this.
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I understand Doc's sentiment but then the good/bad divide no longer
applies (if it even did to begin with), eh? Think u have to conclude
Doc becomes a bit cynical, no? which seems to be obvious for any PI,
no?

rich