What is going on in the judgment process of a fool that does not trust someone that is decent, sound and fundamentally trustworthy but the judger sees none of these existing virtues in that person, and indeed is convinced that that someone is unscrupulous, unsound, and deep-down untrustworthy?
The injudicious decider is obviously someone that is a poor judge of character, at a minimum. Often untrustworthy, dishonest judgers see in others, whether they are blameworthy or not, the untrustworthiness and dishonesty that pervades their own thinking and action. They are not to be trusted, so they cynically conclude everyone else is as they are, especially if that person disagrees with them.
Often when the untrustworthy do not trust the trustworthy, they have concluded they themselves are virtuous, so someone that is the opposite is untrustworthy. Or they might be foolish people with no aptitude for distinguishing between true and false, and right or wrong at all. When one lives in a world of lies and phoniness, one loses the ability to know what is so or not.
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