Singer seems concerned with which social conditions will motivate people to give, rather than with attempting to determine obligations of beneficence with precision.
That said, she posits that blockchain could at some point in the future be deemed an attractive alternative mechanism for states and companies to settle on a less complex system to determine obligations under global tax law, for example.
It can also be about prospectively determining the obligations and duties a person has to fulfill in the future and what she ought to do.
Moreover, since what benefits or harms humans is known through experience, empirical investigation, and knowledge of the past (history), these operate as heuristics for determining our obligations and explain why, in some cases, there may be disagreement about them.
Although Security Council resolutions do not themselves create international law, it does create international precedent and its weight is heavily considered in determining legal obligations under international law.
The rights of children should be considered when determining the obligations and responsibilities of adults, families, schools, the state and society.
However, coordination in financing global health partly requires a mechanism for determining international obligations owed to each country, particularly those in need of external resources to cover the minimum health opportunities per capita.
But it still determines which obligations a couple can keep — who gets hospital visitation rights, family leave, health care and survivor's benefits.
Further, she said, "the judge finds facts, applies the relevant law, determines the obligations of the parties, and then issues an enforceable order," all standard procedures in trials.
For according to that version morality mandates the constitutive role that the theory assigns to institutional practice, while there is no nonmorally predefined route through which the practice is supposed to determine any obligations.
To determine coverage obligations, Zurich filed a lawsuit against Sony, which had to shut down its PlayStation Network for a month.
