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The Circles of concern (n.) are meant to be pulled inward: the duty is to keep moving people from each outer ring into the one inside it, treating elders as grandparents and peers as cousins.
The Circles of concern (n.) ring each of us: the mind at the centre with its body, then parents, siblings, wife and children, then uncles, grandparents and cousins, then all kin, deme, tribe, city, neighbours, nation — and outermost the whole human race.