Trust is not a thing, it is a dynamic human way of being together. Trusting is a verb.
This model has been abstracted from Building Trust, Solomon and Flores. See Trust as a Verb
See Arrows diagram 
Even mercy leads to an undesirable future because the other is no longer a trustworthy member of the group.
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