Trust cannot be adopted at will without changed circumstances

Evidence

One cannot simply start trusting people as of tomorrow unless the people one deals with and one’s relationships with them are suddenly different in relevant ways and one is privileged to know this. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 198

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that trust is an embedded, relational capacity rather than a switchable attitude.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s framing: when blindness makes relationships ‘suddenly different,’ monitoring collapses and trust must be rebuilt from a different base.