There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Trust leads to approachability and open communications.
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.
When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
It is important not to trust people too much.
You can't trust very many people.
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'