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A book on the ethics of care
Honestly though, it doesn't matter. We had religions based on ethical treatment of people along with a bunch of other recommendations to keep the population safe. Things like don't eat meats that were more likely to get people sick. Yet all of those books created cult like following, like any good media, a cult pops up around it. A lot of the time that cult perverses and changes the message of the media to fit what they want.
A good example of this is... Bluey, have you seen this show? A lot of people think it's an example of the perfect parents with normal kids but really it's not at all like that. The kids are unrealistic most of the time. The challenges the parents face are mundane compared to real life. It's just a media that points you in the general direction but doesn't answer any of the real challenges of parenting. You ever talk to the cultists on /r/bluey, you can tell they miss the point of the show entirely yet will completely make up their own points to each episode and set by them.