There are many ways to look at trust. At first it seems like trust is an unequivocally good and desirable trait but take the case of trusting a predator. Is it a virtue to trust a predator?

It has happened many times in the past that states have become predatory and fallen into a path of mechanical destruction of the citizens, an orgy of destruction in the name of the state. The Spanish Inquisition is but one example, The Holocaust is another and the War on Drugs is yet another.

When the state becomes an agent of sadism that exists with punishment as its goal and justification for existence, trusting the state is no virtue, it is a vice --a moral failing.