One cannot be obligated to trust in the absence of supporting evidence.

Evidence

Moreover, when I am not confident of your motivations toward me or of your likely actions, I clearly cannot have an obligation to trust, which would be an obligation to know what my evidence denies; that way leads to the Inquisition, to an obligation that one believe what one does not and cannot believe. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 306

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s Hardin claim that trust requires observable constraints on opportunistic behavior — obligation-to-trust contradicts the evidential basis of legitimate trusting. — connects to: Skepticism about certainty does not justify refusing to act on evidence — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 101