Obligations may be universal or particular.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
I have a lot of obligations.
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.