Abstract This paper introduces a new account of trust and distrust. The core aim the is to introduce an that places treats what ‘ought’ happen as close conceptual companions. Over course paper, I develop compare it with certain rival accounts.

Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say that it ‘gives’ reasons to everyone. We can even think of moral requirements as amounting to particularly strong or stringent reasons, in an effort to demystify deontological views like Kant’s, with its insistence on inescapable or ‘binding’ moral requirements or ‘oughts.’1 When we say that someon...