Include unwritten rules and illegible punishments (changes in the way people interact with you), and then extend to self-modeling (the way you see yourself, as a proxy and template for the way you want others to see you, evolved into a root desire to respect yourself through a mix of behavior and self- and other-deception (or if not active deception, at least framing control)). Then you have at least some indication of the complexity of “cares about” and a way to avoid simple statements about what people “really” believe.
Include unwritten rules and illegible punishments (changes in the way people interact with you), and then extend to self-modeling (the way you see yourself, as a proxy and template for the way you want others to see you, evolved into a root desire to respect yourself through a mix of behavior and self- and other-deception (or if not active deception, at least framing control)). Then you have at least some indication of the complexity of “cares about” and a way to avoid simple statements about what people “really” believe.