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Is it true that if you generally don't trust people, it is because you are not trustworthy yourself?

I just read this article about Mike Huckabee and find it rather unsettling. Will this hurt his running in the presidency?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/huckabee-arkansas-destroyed-records

What are your thoughts on trust these days? With and without politics involved?
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msott | 1 year, 1 month ago
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We generally are what we live. If you grow-up in a home of loving and caring, you will most likely become a loving caring person. If you grow-up in a home of great suspicion, you will probably have a hard time trusting others. Lack of trust may reflect your own untrustworthiness, or it may reflect your upbringing.

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philipy | 1 year, 1 month ago
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In my experience of these things, the most common reason why people in general are untrusting is if they've a) had a bad experience, like being cheated on, and b) generalized from that experience so they've decided "You can't trust men" or "You can't trust anyone" or whatever.

There's probably a sub-category of people who through their experiences have concluded something like: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, you can't trust anyone, play or get played."

Politicians are much the same as anyone else as individuals, but I guess the political culture can have an impact. If you're in an environment that is cynical, that's likely to bring out that side of you, which in turn perpetuates that culture.

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doctordidi | 1 year, 1 month ago
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Yes, I also believe so. A person who is not trustworthy himself thinks the same about everybody and so he cannot trust anyone.

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jarvismiss | 1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't necessarily agree with this, if u don't trust people means you're being cautious.

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bunnyphuphu | 1 year, 1 month ago Report

Did you read the article, or are you making a generalization. In a general scenario I agree with you. When I see a particular behavior from people that have burned me in the past, I usually am very cautious, and will steer as far from them as humanly possible.

But I think Huckabee is being snarky and creating a history of covering his tracks. That's not good when it comes to politics.

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