Trustworthiness is interest-relative, not a fixed trait of character.

Evidence

Trust is related to absence in time and in space. There would be no need to trust anyone whose activities were continually visible and whose thought processes were transparent, or to trust any system whose workings were wholly known and understood. It has been said that trust is “a device for coping with the freedom of others,”30but the prime condition of requirements for trust is not lack of power but lack of full information. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 84 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moral character and trustworthiness are only weakly correlated; Assessing moral and dispositional grounds of trust is harder than assessing interests.; Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 84

Related

• Trust is willed action taken despite an information deficit. (similarity 0.85)
• Trustworthiness has multiple grounds that vary across different people (similarity 0.84)
• Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. (similarity 0.84)
• Trustworthiness is grounded in the trusted’s interest in maintaining a relationship (similarity 0.83)
• Trustworthiness can hold universally while trust cannot rationally (similarity 0.83)
• Moralizing trust often stems from confusing it with trustworthiness (similarity 0.83)
• Trustworthiness requires both shared interest and the competence to serve it. (similarity 0.83)
• Trust substitutes knowledge of system structure for unavailable information about others. (similarity 0.83)
• Trustworthiness is judging one’s interests as depending on fulfilling trust (similarity 0.83)
• External trust depends on learning and system cover, not internal structural reasons. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust involves a calculable asymmetry of possible harm, while hope does not (similarity 0.82)
• Trust belongs to knowledge, so it cannot be offered, demanded, or withheld (similarity 0.82)
• Moral characters of trustworthiness can make people trust even against reason. (similarity 0.82)
• Moralized accounts of trust actually moralize trustworthiness (similarity 0.82)
• Trust reduces to knowledge while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Moral character and trustworthiness are only weakly correlated #corroborates (0.80)
• Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 84
• Assessing moral and dispositional grounds of trust is harder than assessing interests. #complicates (0.75)