Trust presupposes the trustee’s competence to perform the trusted action

Evidence

One other element of trust is shared in virtually all views: competence to do what one is trusted to do. You should not trust me to get you safely to the top of Mount Everest and back, even if I convince you that I have the best will in the world to do so. I usually assume throughout this book that competence is not at issue in the trust relationships under discussion. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines competence as one of the two elements of trust shared across virtually all views, alongside motivation.
• XREF: connects to: Lawyers act as client delegates or as trustees for assumed group goals — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 895