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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: You don't owe anything to people who care about you.

I came across a conversation wherein someone told me how much they cared for me but all I felt was I do not owe you anything just because you care for me. Be it someone who's your parent or partner enquiring how you are or someone who's an acquaintance asking how are you doing. Just because they care about you doesn't mean you owe them anything. Them caring about you is out of their emotions towards you and you necessarily need not reciprocate to it. Is there an other side to this that I have missed?

Edit: I have been receiving abuse on my PM questioning my morality as well as my mental well being when all I looked for is an introspection into a questionable thought of mine. Request you all to keep it civil.
gpt
Mostly agreed, but you can take this argument only so far before you end up in strange, if not unethical, places. 

The key here is to realize that all people have a right to basic human dignity - meaning the right to not be hurt, harmed, or be considered of low to no worth if they don't do anything to hurt, harm, or degrade you and others outside the scope of *reasonable and/or proportionate* levels of defense, retaliation, and punishment.  In this case, you don't have the right to take advantage of their open-heartedness toward you. That's exploitation for one's unnecessary gain.  You also don't have the right to impose psychological harm against them by telling others they are through-and-through worthless outside the said scopes and beyond the said extents.  You also don't have the right to toy with their heart even for so much as cheap amusement.  What you do owe them is an honest but polite, carefully-worded assessment of the personal relationship between you two - meaning be honest but impose as little hurt on them as possible or reasonable.  Yes, they may be hurt, but minimizing the pain imposed will create a lot less bad in this world.