A person can be untrustworthy toward society yet demand trust from partners

Evidence

Karamazov’s lieutenant colonel has a very strange morality and sense of honor. He can act illegally and irresponsibly toward the army and the nation in which he is an officer. Yet he expects Trifonov to act in a trustworthy way with respect to him in their criminal dealings. Morality and trust often do not correlate well. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 948

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the blindness novel’s Hobbesian turn—moral degeneracy and selective trust co-exist, complicating Hardin’s trust-as-encapsulated-interest.