What is Reasonable Evidence for Costly Investments?
Let’s get serious now. If you had to put a good portion of your monthly income and/or your life’s savings at risk, would you still trust your friend without much question? With this kind of value at risk, trust isn’t near enough evidence to be considered reasonable. It doesn’t matter if the person you’re trusting isn’t lying, they could be wrong. Are you willing to risk all that money on the trust that not only your friend isn’t lying but that also he/she is correct? I doubt it. With this level of harm at risk, I would hope you would ask for reasonable evidence. You would need to know how the money would be spent, who is going to be in control, who you could talk to in case you have any questions, the experience of the people in charge… getting to the point: When the risk of a claim being wrong (or right) will cause significant harm, a good amount of evidence is required to support the claim.