People care about breaking rules because there are punishments for breaking rules , both formal and informal. If people were unselfishly rational, and moral as a result of being unselfishly rational, there would be no need for punishments to shape behaviour. As it is, rules need to be formulated on the basis that the rule alone generates the desired behaviour, not on the basis that the individual gets the point of the rule.
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.
People care about breaking rules because there are punishments for breaking rules , both formal and informal. If people were unselfishly rational, and moral as a result of being unselfishly rational, there would be no need for punishments to shape behaviour. As it is, rules need to be formulated on the basis that the rule alone generates the desired behaviour, not on the basis that the individual gets the point of the rule.
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.