I've always seen it as a pithy kind of humor, which it seems most other people either miss or disagree with. "I could care less! (Yet here we are discussing it

I've always seen it as a pithy kind of humor, which it seems most other people either miss or disagree with. "I could care less! (Yet here we are discussing it to death.)" or "They could care less... (less than we do / less than all this discussion suggests they might care)" ^ I think that's essentially how most people use it, mechanically, without thinking about it as much. When I say it, I usually either mean it that way, or something along the lines of "I could care less! (And I wish I did!)"