 The trust rationale is most plausible as a partial rationale. It faces serious objections if it is taken as a comprehensive justification of informed consent (Eyal 2014). For one thing, being forward-looking, this rationale is vulnerable to the objection that, intuitively, informed consent can remain necessary even when the public could never find out that a core violation of the requirement took place. While the requirement of informed consent might not obtain across the board, it seems inappropriate to determine whether it obtains in a given context based on e.g. how chemically traceable is the medication whose forced administration is being considered, although that would affect how much this act would jeopardize future public trust in physicians. Another challenge to this version of the trust rationale is that invasive interventions without a person’s informed consent are usually thought to wrong that person, not to wrong only the potential future victims of a decline in public trust. A possible response would be that the (only) reason why we consider informed consent to be the immediate patient’s right is that what is likeliest to inspire public trust is unconditional commitment to one’s immediate patient’s alleged consent rights.