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It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals.
Lots of obligations.
Of obligations, by far the solemnest.
Item 2. Distribution of obligations.
This definition employs the notion of obligations.
Liberty-rights are absences of obligations.
According to most defenders of special obligations, such obligations are prima facie obligations, i.e., they are obligations with a certain weight that can be counterbalanced by the weight of other special obligations or of other types of obligations.
Obligation skeptics about gratitude present several arguments against the possibility of obligations of grateful behavior.
There are of course many types of obligations: legal obligations, financial obligations, obligations of etiquette, and obligations that hold in virtue of belonging to some club or association, to name just a few.
If we define an "obligations dilemma" as a conflict of obligations where neither of the conflicting obligations is overridden (cf. Sinnott-Armstrong 1988), then the case above involves a conflict of obligations but not an obligations dilemma.
An interesting subset of obligations are attribute updates.
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