Trust is wrongly conflated with promise-keeping and entrusting

Evidence

Sixth, trust occasionally is seen as analogous to promising, so that the seeming morality of promise keeping attaches to trustworthiness. Seventh, there is a sometime slippage when claims about entrusting something to someone are transposed into claims, which make less sense, about trusting someone. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 293

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to moral accounts of trust that Hardin critiques — moralizing trust as promise-keeping instead of reasoned expectation.