How can you argue against the statement: The only person worthy of trust is yourself.?

Question

Should we really put our trust in other people? They will only deceive us and cause us pain.

Answer 1

After so much of unpleasant experiences in life, now i only trust myself and my family.

Answer 2

Love everyone but trust a few.

You need to find out more about the person before you can trust them.

Answer 3

God lies in everyone and is all that they truly are. You can trust God.

Answer 4

The question is, "Can we really trust ourselves?"  I am a habitual procrastinator.  I am constantly promising myself that I will get started on projects, and begin to change some habits, only to either not do it at all, or fizzle out in very little time.

Answer 5

The idea that humans deceive us and cause pain is subjective. Many would not attest to that. I think if you only trust yourself, you limit what you are--a social being. There are degrees of trust, and I think everyday we make small efforts to trust people even if a core belief is not to trust people. For example, such a person might go to work and trash talk to other employees, trusting they won't say anything. There's some trust there.

Answer 6

It's impossible to trust other people if we cannot even trust ourselves first.  People who don't trust others, usually can't be trusted themselves.

Answer 7

I agree that it is senseless to argue the point here. BUT....

I have faith in our fellow humans and would like to continue to believe they are alot like me and don't want to be hurt in any way, want to be loved beyond belief, want to be one with another human being.

I hope you find that.

I am the only person I have control over, that is why I trust myself, but at times I even let me down. That's why we are called human beings.....we all make mistakes and sometimes the wrong choices.

Answer 8

WE CAN NOT TRUST OURSELVES ALWAYS ..

IT IS FAIR ENOUGH TO TRUST ONE PERSON IN OUR ENTIRE LIFETIME ..AND I THINK YOU CAN FIND THIS PERSON BUT NOT EASILY ...

TEST POEPLE MANY TIMES BEFORE YOU TRUST THEM ..

Answer 9

I would argue that trust is a relative thing - it's not "I trust you" and "I don't trust you", there are levels of trust.  Occasionally you must put a certain degree of trust in someone else - like the trust you put in your mailman to get your mail to you in time and not open it and steal things, or indeed the trust you put in humanity every morning when you leave the house not to kill you.

Not only that, but most of the time, putting trust in other people pays off.  Occasionally you may be betrayed, but I find that when I put trust in friends, I am not betrayed.

Answer 10

Nothing is worthy of your trust.  Not even yourself.  Trust is taking something for granted.  Truth is the process of verifying and re-verifying the status and consistency of something to ensure that it bears the same stability as it did the day prior, and since we live in a universe of unending chaos and change, everything we take for granted as "stable" will undoubtedly be different upon another day.  Forgiveness, therefore, is more important than trust because we expect the status of things to fluctuate and the only thing that is really betrayed in a betrayal of trust is our own child-like ignorance or innocence (view it as you will) that anything in this universe was stable enough to be taken for granted in the first place, even friendships or love.

One of the worst flaws in this world is in fact trusting yourself.  The mind is weak and will deceive you as it is often times more accepting of what it wants to believe than that which is verifiable as real.  It wants to believe that it can trust and love someone who has hurt you repeatedly or that your love can somehow change them rather than accepting that they are as they are.  This is one reason that an abused spouse will often return to their abuser.

Another delusion is that of self-control.  We will not ever be in full control of ourselves until we have full conscious manipulation of all elements, chemicals, cells, and organs within our own bodies.  Anyone with a chemical imbalance (which is fairly common and does undeniably exist within myself) can verify this statement.  I also, as a person who has experienced a number of mental breakdowns, can attest to the instability of one's own mind and that to trust in it fully is a terrible error of judgment.

Trust nothing, verify and test everything.  Accept that which is as it is currently.  That is all one can do...

Answer 11

That is a ridiculous statement.

If you cannot trust other people, then why should you trust yourself? If you think that everyone is going to hurt you then, unless you think yourself superior, surely you hurt others? And because you can hurt others, you would be perfectly capable of hurting yourself, just as you believe trusting others would hurt you.

Answer 12

My dear destroyer of the world you can still trust someone to a certain extent.

However, the only person who knows the truth about your self is only you and only you.

But we can trust other people. Most of the time we don't tell the actual truth, when talking about ourselves because we want to coat the situation. Or still, we want to entrust other people with out feelings and situations, yet we are not capable of being trusted.

But there are people we can trust and they keep the trust.

Thanks for asking

Answer 13

We are born to only trust ourselves but we've to learn to trust people around us.

I only trust my parents, my woman & few freinds........others are not worthy of them.......I d**n agree.

Answer 14

There are a few people I trust to be there in the bad times and that is true friendship.  They are few, but I have faith in them.  Unfortunately, my brothers are not among them.

Answer 15

I think we can trust ourselves as much as we can trust a friend. No one has total self-control over themselves and never knows what kind thing might tempt us to go against ourselves. With somethings we have more trust in others then we do in ourselves.

Answer 16

The best argument against that statement is not an argument for trusting others, but rather an argument against trusting oneself.  We often sabotage our own happiness, whether it is cheating on a beloved spouse.... developing bad relationships with children.... gossiping at work... etc.  We also tend to make very poor decisions in life (most of us) which would make me think that oneself is not very trustworthy at all.

Now when you are talking about worthy of trust that is even harder to say about oneself.  A person is only worthy of trust when they have proven to be trustworthy, not only to oneself but to others.  If you should not trust me because I lie and cheat, then I am untrustworthy.  If I am un worthy of trust it is not just from you but from everyone.... including myself.

So basically I trust me about as far as I can throw me.

Answer 17

Not always true. I know for a fact that my best friends have complete trust in me. Not the No-I'm-not-holding-a-water-gun-behind-my... kind of trust just before squirting them, but more like the type of I-can-sell-your-weed-for-you-while-you-a... type of trust. thats some good trust, ya dig?

Answer 18

If it's true but I don't agree, I see no reason to argue with someone who does agree, since they have no basis to say

I should trust what they say anyway. Thus, the question is self negating, a pretty good sign that it leads nowhere.

Answer 19

Although your statement is true but the fact remains that we do trust people in our daily life.The bus driver/pilot/engine driver when we travel, the doctor to give us correct advice and prescription,the police to protect us from criminals,etc etcWe have to trust others to some extent to live in a society.

Answer 20

i trust people to a certain extent.

i trust my best friend to a certain extent.

i trust my mom with everything though, but everyone else, it's to a certain extent. my sister is a little careless, so i wouldn't always trust her with pets or children. i trust my friends, but in the past year i have learned quite a bit about them and now only trust them all to a certain extent.

if you don't trust others, you'll be living quite a lonely life. i'm a hopeful girl, and i always like to hope and wish for the best, otherwise there would be nothing to keep me going. but i just live by this rule: every time i meet someone new, i have no trust whatsoever for them. only after i get to know them and when they prove themselves to me do i begin to trust them and confide in them, otherwise i retain my distance. and some may disagree with me, but i've seen some bad things and i'd always rather be safe than sorry, and this method has never failed me.