We care about people and about the things we love.
Caring is the act of transfering our preference orderings in surrogacy to the other person or item.
Naturally we care for the things we don't consume. Tastes and preferences apply most naturally to what we consume rather than to what we steward. Insofar as consumption serves as the medium of value, tastes and preferences and markets are the most appropriate metrics of, and social institutions for, that value; insofar as stewardship serves as the medium of value, caring and gift exchanges are the most appropriate metrics of, and social institutions for, that value.
Caring more naturally measures inalienable value. The parameters of caring are surrogacy or the discount we apply to cross-sectional distance.
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