> Right, when preferences are in conflict do you protect the person who cares or the person who doesn't? There is a cost to always protecting the person who ca

> Right, when preferences are in conflict do you protect the person who cares or the person who doesn't? There is a cost to always protecting the person who cares, which is that people may self-modify to care more, making cooperation harder. (Or just pretend to care more than they actually do.) It's not necessarily a worry in this particular case, but it's worth considering in the general case.