The ethics of care begins from the observation that the two major well-established Euro-American theories of morality are focused on justice and impartiality, and have difficulty justifying parts of our moral lives that are focused on particular individual relationships. Utilitarianism, for example, tells us that we should do whatever results in the greatest good for the greatest number, and this seems to imply that preferring the benefit of one’s friends and family is not morally justifiable—it is a form of selfishness. Similarly, Kantian deontology says we should never use others as a means to our own ends, and thus seems to imply that we should never allow others to suffer in order to benefit those closest to us. Should we then give away all our income and spend all our time caring for those who are most needy, unless and until our own children are as impoverished and neglected as the least among us? If we are in a burning building, is it immoral to run past other children in order to save our own instead? We have a strong intuition that caring for, and showing favoritism and partiality towards those we have relationships with is part of a moral life, and that acting with pure objectivity toward friends and family would be a moral failure.