Trust and respect

Society is one's social environment. Environments give and take without negotiation. 

Autonomy is the ability to release one's creative urges. That ability depends both on the individual and on the society of which s/he is a member. 

Identity is the manifestation of autonomy. Identity is a two step process. The individual does what s/he does and the society bestows rewards or punishments. Each are grants or takings. Neither are voluntary nor are they arrived at by agreement. Individuals and society don't negotiate. 

Trust and respect comes of one party's knowledge of another's identity. To know is to take as given (gifts leading to trust) or to give as taken (punishments leading to respect) rather than to give and to take in exchange. Trust depends on knowing what comes not as a result of negotiation but as a result of the expression of one's autonomy in the context of one's or another's environment. 

Every autonomous being situates itself in its environment so as either to express or repress its autonomy. One's situation with respect to one's environment is the result of the build up of trust. The build up of trust is what happens when one takes as given and gives as taken with another party, when that other party is part of one's environment. Autonomy is what comes into play when an individual fits into his/her environment. 

Meaning, on the other hand, goes beyond trust and respect to where the other ceases to be distinct from one's own sense of self, where the other is not part of society and one's social environment but becomes rather incorporated into oneself.