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Katherine Hawley on Trustworthiness

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Trustworthiness Is a Good Thing, but It's Not Always Good

Keeping promises is not always the most important thing. Trustworthiness in that kind of context is not admirable, it's not something that we should be recommending as a model to our children. Nevertheless, these people, these Mafiasi are trustworthy ought to want another. That's what trustworthiness requires. It doesn't tell us which commitments to undertake in the first place.

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