No; rather, that the caring-about is not meaningfully summarized by “values.” It’s too fine-grained.
“Values” are often vague/abstract (unlike ice cream and anomalocaridids) and universal. This makes it easy to use them retrospectively to explain why your actions are good and other people’s are bad.
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To pick this back up: I don't think values need to be that. A better description of what I mean may be that values are ideas about how things ought to be done, and these ideas are built from the bottom up by individual little things you care about (but are too fine grained).
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It's indeed wrong that moral and political convictions emerges from a few fundamental terminal values, but I do think that the normative constructions that result from emotional reactions, tribal interests and learned habits can be reasonably referred to as values...
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