Comment 1 (Caring as virtue)

I think there is a continuity about the kind of reading we have done. Maybe naturally, is not the right word with intuitively or fundamentally saying that care is important. Care is a virtue. It's important to learn how to care. But there is a “but.” So I think you know, when we read Ellen Seiter, when we went to Bellacasa, and then now with Nell Noddings and yourself. I think that kind of logical processing, or maybe just processing, it is very similar.

We can start thinking about the significance of caring. You know I was in Japan last week, and I saw one of the documentaries about the fires, the wildfires that are happening everywhere, and the news person made this comment that fire may just be the emblem of the way in which we’re gonna die, meaning our planet. Because of this high temperature, boiling and all this stuff. You know how to care because of all these chaos and problems. One of the things you just brought up, should we be paid to do carework? The very first session, if you remember, with Ellen Sieter. One of the readings was called Cheap Care. It was a whole historical review about how women's care work was so underpaid. And so there's this moral call. If care becomes like service. Learning, you know, becomes transactional. And it's really problematic.

So how are people reconciling these?

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