As for obligation—I doubt you are under any obligation other than to avoid the usual >uncontroversially nasty behavior, along with any specific obligations you may have to >specific people you know. You would know what those are much better than I would. I >don’t really see how an ordinary person could be all that puzzled about what his >obligations are.
You have collapsed several meanings of obligation together there. You may have explicit legal obligations to the state, and IOU style obligations to individuals who have done you a favour, and so on. But moralobligations go beyond all those, If you are living a brutal dictatorship, there are conceivable circumstances where you morally should not obey the law. Etc, etc.
You have collapsed several meanings of obligation together there. You may have explicit legal obligations to the state, and IOU style obligations to individuals who have done you a favour, and so on. But moralobligations go beyond all those, If you are living a brutal dictatorship, there are conceivable circumstances where you morally should not obey the law. Etc, etc.