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    Consciously using people's need for esteem as a reason for trusting them is incompatible with actually trusting them.

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    • 1.Annette Baier's analysis holds that trust involves making oneself vulnerable to another's goodwill, not merely to their incentive structures.
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    • 2.When one consciously exploits esteem-needs, one relies on a psychological mechanism rather than on the trusted party's goodwill toward oneself.
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    • 3.Reliance on a mechanism rather than goodwill reduces the relationship to a form of manipulation, which is structurally incompatible with the vulnerability constitutive of trust.
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    • 1.Philip Pettit's account requires that trust involves treating the other as a genuine moral agent responsive to normative reasons, not merely causal forces.
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    • 2.Consciously instrumentalizing another's esteem-need treats their behavior as a predictable causal output of a psychological drive, bypassing their rational agency.
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    • 3.Bypassing rational agency in this way precludes the stance of holding the other responsible that genuine trust, as a normative relationship, necessarily involves.
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    • 1.Trust, on a motives-based account, requires a motive other than self-interest.
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    • 2.Deliberately leveraging another person's esteem-seeking behavior to get what one wants is a self-interested motive.
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    • 3.A motive that is self-interested cannot simultaneously be the motive required by motives-based trust.
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    Such an epistemology is also open to criticisms, however. For example, it suggests that rational trust will always be partial rather than complete, given that the rational trustor is open to evidence that contradicts their trust on this theory, while someone who trusts completely in someone else lacks such openness. The theory also implies that the reasons for trusting well (i.e., in a justified way) are accessible to the trustor, at some point or another, which may simply be false. Some reasons
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