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Alibey1917 Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary
Default toward
"What happens to a society that defaults toward mistrust, rather than trust, in institutions? What happens to our power as citizens when we lose confidence that the prescribed methods of civic participation have real impact?" (Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them)
What does "default toward" mean here?
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To "default toward mistrust, rather than trust", means to tend to mistrust when there is not a definite or positive reason to trust.
- To "default toward mistrust, rather than trust", means to tend to mistrust when there is not a definite or positive reason to trust.
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To "default toward mistrust, rather than trust", means to tend to mistrust when there is not a definite or positive reason to trust.
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