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I don’t like the word care or caring. A deceitful word. To care or care for, is in an exercise of self-indulgence under the guise of charity. It’s a word marinated in mothering and patronizing sentiments. People who care or care for—or those semantically clever: tend to—always do so with the thought of self-service before social service. These are the people who lecture about how they know what’s best for you. Manage you. Mother you. And before you know it smother you. Such saccharine egotism. Care is simply the saintly answer to narcissism.