Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust
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- Trust in government is not a major working factor in modern society (similarity 0.90)
- Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order (similarity 0.87)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.86)
- Government being trustworthy matters more than the public trusting it. (similarity 0.85)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.85)
- Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.85)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.84)
- System trust is easier to acquire but harder to control than personal trust (similarity 0.84)
- Deceitful trust, once established, obliges its user into genuine trustworthiness (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information (similarity 0.84)
- Trusting values depend crucially on the information each party holds (similarity 0.84)
- Trust is inductively corrigible by objective experience (similarity 0.84)
- Trust grows out of the specific relationship between the parties (similarity 0.83)
- Trust and trustworthiness are asymmetrical because only trusting carries significant risk of exploitation (similarity 0.83)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.83)