Imagine that: a DJ job description that involves the obligation to shed listeners!
To be sure, cost-benefit analysis with discounting can produce serious problems of intergenerational equity; but those problems, involving the obligations of the present to the future, require an independent analysis.
As we are told on the front cover of Tragically, I Was an Only Twin, Cook was, according to Stephen Fry, "the funniest man who ever drew breath", and the turn of phrase makes us speculate that, for Cook, to draw breath involved the obligation to do so amusingly.
The second principle identified in the TCPS2, respect for person, involves the moral obligation to respect and protect the autonomy of research participants as well as those individuals whose data are used for research purposes [ 28].
Morality, on Stirner's account, involves the positing of obligations to behave in certain fixed ways.
One weakness in the position of INTA and the bankruptcy courts in Colorado, Connecticut and New Jersey, involves the continuing statutory obligation for trademark licensors to maintain control of the nature and quality of all licensed products bearing the licensors' trademarks.
The treaty of 1909 proposed the commission "to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier".
The setting of the discussion is crucial since the obligation often involves the evaluation of statements that depend on the disputational context.
These options should be legally valid and constitutional, notwithstanding the debt ceiling: neither involves the issuance of general-obligation or full-faith-and-credit government debt, and indeed the second option doesn't involve the issuance of any government debt.
The cases involving the insurers' obligation to indemnify the league are unlikely to be resolved until after the underlying case with the retired players is clarified.
