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What is a moral obligation?

What is a moral obligation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) a duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.
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His moral obligation would be to give us the names of the donors of the black money.
Intuitions are apt to differ, for example, regarding the existence of a moral obligation to pay for the wine delivered to your home by mistake.
What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and sophistry to escape from a moral obligation.
But that does not release me, in the future, from the moral obligation of telling the truth.
Green clearly has a moral obligation, potentially a legal one too, to fill the £571m blackhole in BHS's pension scheme.
On the other hand, a duty is a moral obligation to do one specific thing over another without the freedom to decide.

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