The government, Sabraw reasoned, "has an affirmative obligation to track and promptly reunify these family members". He called it "startling" that the administration had not undertaken adequate planning before deciding to strip children from parents held for criminal prosecution.
Among those who had thought about leaving, dissatisfaction with compensation was the most common main reason; an obligation to serve the community was the most common main reason for staying.
And, second, is there a sufficient moral reason or obligation for acting on or ignoring it?
How often have you spent money on Christmas presents for no other reason than obligation?
For most of us it starts right out of college and continues for an entire decade: a nonstop parade of save-the-date magnets and mandatory bridal showers, engagement parties, and actual nuptials that punctuate each summer, dictate your travel plans, and give you a reason (or obligation) to own nice clothes.
For this reason promissory obligations are often categorized as 'special' obligations, of a piece with the obligations owed to family and friends.
Insofar as they are requirements of practical reason, moral obligations are universally and necessarily binding for all rational beings.
If roles or positions generate moral or reason-giving obligations, we need some conception of roles that does not yield the implausible implication that Nazis had moral obligations to herd Jews into gas chambers.
Although feminists have not addressed the problems for feminism related to agent internalism, at least two feminists have identified problems with internalism in general, as a logical thesis about the connection between motives and reasons and/or obligations.
For these reasons, HIC obligations to citizens of LICs should remain morally binding even if LIC governments refuse or fail to fulfil their financing obligations.
One could then argue that reasons of special obligation supervene upon relationships between friends, between promisor and promisee, etc.
