# kaal:claim:3709041-014

**Claim.** Trust created by law is often limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and constrained to human speed.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to trust generated by legal guarantees and judicial enforcement

**Source quote.**

> Legally created trust is often limited as it can be arbitrary because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, with fallible human-centric decision processes, and human speed.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), II.1 Transcending Socialism and Capitalism, page 12

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

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**Failure mode.** limits of legally created trust  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** reputation, law-and-legal-systems, compliance, institutional-design

**Keywords.** legal-trust, judicial-enforcement, legitimacy, institutional-inflexibility

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-010

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