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    It is not the case that Baier's own account of trust as 'reliance on another's goodwill' entails that its negation—non-reliance due to expected ill-will—exhausts what distrust adds over mere non-trust.

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    • 1.Distrust can involve fear of incompetence or negligence rather than ill-will—expecting harm without attributing malice.
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    • 2.One can distrust someone while remaining uncertain about their motives, making distrust irreducible to expected ill-will alone.
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    • 3.Distrust involves active monitoring and defensive posturing absent in mere non-trust, suggesting it adds emotional and behavioral dimensions.
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    • 1.Trust and distrust are logical opposites: if trust requires reliance on goodwill, then distrust necessarily involves expecting ill-will.
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    • 2.Non-trust (indifference/ignorance about another's will) is categorically distinct from distrust (active expectation of harm).
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    • 3.Baier's definition economically explains distrust without requiring additional philosophical machinery beyond trust's negation.
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