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Impartial caring is ethically preferable to differentiated caring.

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1.Caring more for oneself, one's family, or one's state was the cause of the warfare and cruelty of Mozi's era.
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2.Impartial caring would lead to greater harmony and material satisfaction.
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1.Genuine moral development requires cultivating particular attachments before universal concern, as Mencius argues ren originates in family love.
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2.Impartial caring, by demanding equal concern for strangers and kin, severs the motivational roots from which broader benevolence actually grows.
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3.A moral psychology that cannot be reliably enacted by actual humans is ethically inferior to one that channels real human affective capacities.
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