Luke Weinhagen

Forbearance: Active investment in others in support of social outcomes you explicitly want. Tolerance: Passive investment in others in support of social outcomes you don’t explicitly want. Intolerance: Active refusal to invest in social outcomes you don’t explicitly want.

Those of us living in high trust societies recognize the importance of The Golden Rule. We understand its value and the benefits we derive from it. It is one of the first formal lessons in social interaction we teach our children. But we mistake the Golden Rule for the First Rule of a high trust society – it is the last, the top layer of the foundation. THE FOUNDATION Via Positiva: The Golden Rule. Via Negativa: The Silver Rule. Via Logica: The Natural Law of Reciprocity. Via Existentia: Rule of Law, Jury, and ​Markets in everything. The Iron Rule: Might Makes Right. These are Foundational rules – forming the foundations of interaction upon which we build the functions of our society – the closer you get to the Golden Rule the more trust your society can support.