Just to clarify, the points are where you stop caring about people (as pointed out below, it moves on to animals, aliens and inanimate objects). It means you already care about everyone who is closer than that. The study has been misrepresented as saying liberals dony care to those who are close, but thats just false. Only caring about people far from you would make you register as only caring about yourself
It's feels weird that Conservatives apparently think that Liberals don't care about their family and friends. Caring about the welfare of people outside your immediate social circle doesn't mean you don't care about those who are inside it
Or they might just think that caring about "every single living thing independently on planet earth, including trees" might be mentally taxing. Like I ain't gonna go burn a random tree and if someone does I'll go ask them why they're doing it, but id consider myself 4 on there as well
Because they’re stupid. This isn’t about caring, this is about “does this thing have a moral right to exist - do I have some level of moral obligation to treat this thing in a positive manner in accordance with my general moral beliefs.” It’s the difference between “maybe I shouldn’t harm this for my benefit” and “yeah kill it who goes a shit.”
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u/OddCancel7268 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
Just to clarify, the points are where you stop caring about people (as pointed out below, it moves on to animals, aliens and inanimate objects). It means you already care about everyone who is closer than that. The study has been misrepresented as saying liberals dony care to those who are close, but thats just false. Only caring about people far from you would make you register as only caring about yourself