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    It is not the case that Nel Noddings and care ethicists hold that genuine care requires 'engrossment' — an affective attentiveness to the particular other that cannot be reduced to policy adoption.

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    • 1.Relying on individual engrossment creates partiality and inconsistency; some people receive care while structurally similar others are neglected.
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    • 2.Affective states are unreliable guides to moral obligations; emotion can cloud judgment, enable favoritism, and vary with caregiver burnout.
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    • 3.Large-scale justice requires scalable, principled frameworks; genuine care for strangers demands institutional mechanisms, not just emotional attentiveness.
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    • 1.Policies are inherently general; they cannot account for the unique vulnerabilities and needs of specific individuals in their particular contexts.
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    • 2.Affective attentiveness generates responsive insight that abstract rule-following cannot; emotional resonance motivates genuine moral action.
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    • 3.Historical injustices show that well-intentioned policies without relational grounding often harm the very people they aim to help.
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