s voice as originating from the perspective of care. She further delineated the care outlook she found. A care prospective affirms that compromise and accommodation are both good in the case of conflict and thus are tools for a moral decision. Care category respondents were the most creative in accommodating the porcupine and the most unwilling to accept that accommodating the porcupine was impossible. Compromise and accommodation are differentiated from appealing to utility. In a care view" no one is expendable and no one is a mere receptacle for utility" (Manning 48). In a care point of view, a solution is motivated by the connections inherent in creating, preserving, and strengthening relationships. Self-sacrifice is not necessarily the chief impetus. A care perspective, in accordance with Manning's studies, holds that a creative commitment to taking care of everyone's needs will yield a moral solution. It is not as much a situation of precedence of care over justice but in a different thinking process in moral thinking. In light of all these examinations of the care perspective Gilligan discerned, we can meld a fitting definition. The care perspective is motivated by relationships and used feelings and emotions to direct the tools of compassion and compromise to arrive at a moral judgment. In many cases justice and care seem to converge at some point. While the approach and steps may differ, both a justice and care point of view usually lead to a similar result. Morality is something larger then a justice/care distinction. Even if gender related theories focus on one at the expense of the other, a just person often cares and a caring person is often just. I personally agree with the view that "One has the roles one has because of one's sex or because one has been socialized in a certain way because of one's sex" (Sterba, p. 57). The desirable traits of one sex are often viewed as undesirable in the other. This rift both originates ...
