In order to avoid the latter and to respond to charges of parochialism, the defender of special obligations needs to deal with the distributive objection.
Fiduciary obligations need not be chosen think of the duties that parents owe children or that a court-appointed lawyer owes her client.
Indeed, even in ordinary cases in which reliance and expectations are foreseeable and in fact foreseen, no harm-based obligations need arise, as Charles Fried vividly observed in connection with defending his preferred voluntarist account of contract.
In response to this argument, some obligationists about gratitude have suggested modifying the correlativity thesis to allow that directed obligations need not entail standing to enforce or exact, but only standing to hold the obligee responsible in some weaker way—say, with a reactive attitude, like resentment (Darwall 2012).
Clear boundaries regarding care and treatment obligations need to be delineated.
It also highlights the fact that capacity-building obligations need clear boundaries in the same way as obligations to provide ancillary care and treatment post-trial.
While we recognise that various obligations need to be fulfilled in order to ultimately achieve justice in global health, for lack of space we prioritise obligations for health financing.
The content and extent of capacity-building obligations need to be clarified (i.e. how much and what sort of capacity-building is required in different contexts and for different sorts of people).
The trust argues that the government's incentives mechanism, the Renewables Obligation, needs to be made more attractive, and hopes that establishing a Department of Energy and Climate Change will herald a new beginning for wind power.
In the middle years of the twentieth century some philosophers even asserted, on conceptual grounds, that political obligation needs no justification.
