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    It is not the case that The supporting argument conflates the causal explanation of why one distrusts with the constitutive content of distrust itself, committing a genetic fallacy.

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    • 1.The origins of mental states partially constitute their content; how distrust forms shapes what counts as that emotional state.
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    • 2.Not all causal-to-constitutive arguments are genetic fallacies; some causal histories are legitimately relevant to definition.
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    • 3.The charge assumes a sharp fact/value or origin/essence distinction that may not hold for trust-related concepts.
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    • 1.Genetic fallacy occurs when origin invalidates present content; explaining distrust's cause doesn't determine what distrust actually is.
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    • 2.Distrust's constitutive nature (what makes it distrust) is logically distinct from its etiology (why someone came to distrust).
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    • 3.An argument equating causal origins with essential properties commits exactly the error genetic fallacies target.
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