> The contract is there to punish breach of trust, not to establish trust. If someone can only be trusted under threat of punishment, that means that they aren

> The contract is there to punish breach of trust, not to establish trust. If someone can only be trusted under threat of punishment, that means that they aren't actually trustworthy in the first place. I think we might have different definitions of trust. If I fully trust someone, to me that means that I know there's no need for the threat of court at all, because I can be sure that they will uphold their word even if it's in their better financial interest to break it.