Comment on Can I trust things)/people as far as I can throw them?
button_masher@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoI hear you and yep, since throwing ability is limited, trust is in short supply.
Which is why I wanted to consider that throwing ability can vary and therefore the amount of trust. And what can I extrapolate from this scale!
lemmyng@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
The implication of the phrase is not that trust is variable depending on the subject’s or object’s physical abilities. Its meaning is more that one doesn’t trust the other person’s motivation, so the trust only goes as far as one’s own ability to affect the other’s figurative position ("throwing” them.)