I expect to care. And I expect to need to act as though I have always cared, in the moments that I do care.
Expanded: Sometimes I don’t care. Sometimes I do care. When I do care, I might or might not retroactively care about wrongs I’ve committed in the past. (Usually not, turns out.) However, I will be strongly motivated to act rightly in the moments that I spend caring, and this is easier to do if I have a track record of acting rightly. This isn’t always enough to make me act rightly when I don’t care, but it does mean that I trouble to make sure I have an excuse for not doing so in those times. So later I can say “I have always acted rightly except in extenuating circumstances such as X, which doesn’t apply here because Y, so now I will act rightly because that’s just the sort of person I am.”
I expect to care. And I expect to need to act as though I have always cared, in the moments that I do care.
Expanded: Sometimes I don’t care. Sometimes I do care. When I do care, I might or might not retroactively care about wrongs I’ve committed in the past. (Usually not, turns out.) However, I will be strongly motivated to act rightly in the moments that I spend caring, and this is easier to do if I have a track record of acting rightly. This isn’t always enough to make me act rightly when I don’t care, but it does mean that I trouble to make sure I have an excuse for not doing so in those times. So later I can say “I have always acted rightly except in extenuating circumstances such as X, which doesn’t apply here because Y, so now I will act rightly because that’s just the sort of person I am.”