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'''Morality as Nurturance''': Nurturance presupposes empathy. A child is helpless and to care for a child, you have to care about that child, which requires seeing the world through the child's eyes as much as possible. (Here I think there is a mix with liberal-empathy, with [[FFFF]] that demand that the state will help the week [[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 13:55, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
* The Community is a Family
* Moral agents are Nurturing parents
* People needing help are Children needing care
* Moral action is Nurturance
'''Moral Self-Nurturance''': You can't take care of others if you don't take care of yourself. Part of the morality of nurturance is self-nurturance: maintaining your health, making a living, and so on. (I think it is not part of the real liberal world view. it is an excuse against cons. alot of real liberals have hard time take caring of themselves. They prefer to be couriose rather to work [[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 14:00, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
'''Morality as Social Nurturance''': There are two varieties of moral nurturance -- one about individuals and the other about social relations. If community members are to empathize with one another and help one another, then social ties must be maintained. The metaphor can be stated as follows:
* Moral agents are Nurturing Parents
* Social ties are Children needing care
* Moral Action is the Nurturance of Social Ties
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