How to move contacts from iphone to mac's Address book WITHOUT DELETING?

I want to move contacts from my iPhone to the address book in the computer. I'm scared about it deleting contacts in my iPhone instead as I've heard horror stories. Syncing is so freaking confusing???

So far playing around with it back and forth. My understanding is the following;
1. Add on iPhone / Sync / Adds to Address Book
2. Delete on iPhone / Sync / Deletes from Address Book
3. Add in Addres Book / Sync / Does not add to iphone (with no regards to Advanced option in iTunes)
4. Delete in Address Book / Sync / Deletes on iPhone (with no regards to Advanced option in iTunes)

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