Friend,

If you care about something, I care about it, too. I care for the sake of its importance to you, and I may care for that reason alone.

I may not be able to care about it as energetically or as exhaustively as you do. I may not reach the same conclusions you reach. We might disagree.

But if you care about something, I will do everything I can to understand why you care. I will try to see the validity of your understanding, and in light of that understanding, care with you. I will see how far I can go in sharing your convictions. Where I am unable to share your convictions, I will try to account for and justify why.

In this way, I will make both my agreement and disagreement with you an expression of our friendship.

But please understand: Friendship is essentially mutual. I cannot be more of a friend to you than you are to me.