Kohlberg claimed that the highest stage of such development involves a concern for justice and human rights based on universal principles, and he relegated sheer concern for relationships and for individual human well-being to lower stages of the process.
It is this claim that Blum and Friedman deny: although such universalist concern surely has a place in moral theory, the value indeed the moral value (cf. Section 2.2)—of friendship cannot properly be appreciated except as involving a concern for another for his sake and as the particular person he is.
These answers to the social value of friendship seem to apply equally well to love: insofar as love essentially involves both a concern for your beloved for his sake and, consequently, action on his behalf for his sake, love will exhibit the same social value.
Mercy involves a charitable concern for the well-being of the offender as a potential recipient of deserved punishment.
A related reason involved an altruistic concern for helping needy children.
In Australia, for the last decade, the coverage of households with a telephone connected (landline) and the adequacy of the sampling frame(s) have been a concern for those involved in epidemiologically-sound telephone surveys.
Consequentialists and deontologists must think that relationships like friendship essentially involve a kind of special concern for the friend and that such relationships therefore demand that one's actions exhibit a kind of partiality towards the friend.
The recognition of human spaceflight as a developmental activity requires a shift in focus from operations and meeting schedules to a concern for the risks involved.
Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into development interventions aimed at addressing the pressing needs of returnees should be a concern for all stakeholders involved in the design and implementation development interventions.
The risk of cancer formation is a concern for any therapies that involve integration in the genome and enhancement of cell proliferation.
