Talk:Obligation

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Need to define financial "obligations"
The article omits one of the most common and concrete "obligations" -- financial obligations. Unfortunately, I lack the expertise to write it ...

Status of obligation.
If obligation is not observable in a state of affairs, then it arises by ascription or utterance. Simply ascribing (i.e. writing to - from the Latin 'ad scribere') obligation to B doesn't establish the state of affairs where B is obliged and therefore doesn't establish the truth of the sentence 'B is obliged' just as simply saying "The cat is sitting on the mat" doesn't establish the state of affairs where the cat is sitting on the mat and therefore doesn't establish the truth of the sentence 'The cat is sitting on the mat'. The process is one of magical incantation i.e. saying it's so makes it so. Ash138.217.214.135 (talk) 11:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

A good-faith edit that I reverted
An editor added the following text from the lead, which I do not understand


 * 1 define obligaton matter of a single person (vs) obligatios that includes more then a sigle object,


 * 2 Obligation /Legal / Penalty/ shouln,t exsist wen the word choice is precent in any way of the context.


 * 3 (protection) there are diferent tipes of protections protection of a persons Rigths, protection of a persons from life trnt , protection in a way the that person dont die of starbing or hunger protection those definitions word baced or by far the most common life trnts for a person , there is a way of protecting a person in full gear under his or her rights of constitution or just under someone way of determination.

I have reverted this but suspect they were getting at something real, that might be relevant. If anyone else knows what it was, please feel free to add! Elemimele (talk) 20:42, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Obliged versus Obligated
I am not a lawyer, but feel that other non-lawyers might be confused by second sentence of the lead: "People who are under obligations may choose to freely act under obligations". The natural definition of an obligation, is, after all, something where we do not have the choice to act freely. I wonder whether this is because the article does not differentiate between being obliged and being obligated. A bank-teller is obligated to hand over the cash when I present a valid cheque (i.e. it is correct that he should, but he has a free choice not to act under the obligation, though his act would then be immoral). But he is obliged to hand over the cash when I turn up with stocking over my head and a gun (i.e. he has no free choice). Is this the point of the second sentence? Should it be clarified? I'm highlighting the confusion to an average reader, but cannot change the text as I know nothing of law. Elemimele (talk) 20:47, 14 August 2021 (UTC)