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If the government is obliged to be a lender of last resort then it seems reasonable for it to take less binary steps before that eventuality.

Why should somebody who you call an asshole in public be obliged to give you a goodwill bonus?

If you can provide historical sources for exercise from Greece that predates yoga, I would be much obliged.

You can claim financial hardship, but the court isn't obliged to accept your claims.

It's likely that Paul Graham directly and enthusiastically introduced them to the VCs, which obliged them to respond with a semi-coherent rejection.

But the idea that they're obliged to is a little disquieting.

Well, I can only speak for Denmark, but here you are obliged by law to give water to anyone who asks.

Personally I hate feeling obliged to talk to bus drivers and taxi drivers but when a conversation happens it is often rewarding.

Also, reddit is a private company and so is not obliged to provide a platform for anyone's free speech, that also is a facet of freedom.

I believe the right to privacy is important enough that it's something that an employee should not be obliged to forfeit it in an employment contract.

I must confess that when I saw a citation to the Heritage Foundation, I felt obliged to verify this through other sources; it seems about right.

From what I heard French are obliged to surrender encryption keys at the request of authorities or go to jail for a few years for denying their request.

That doesn't mean they are obliged to comply with whatever you think is "the right thing"®.

The majority of people, and many modern philosophers still have essentially the same beliefs regarding consciousness/perceptions as what Leibniz wrote here: "One is obliged to admit that perception and what depends upon it is inexplicable on mechanical principles, that is, by figures and motions.

What portion of these are obliged to resort to Paris to complete their education cannot be ascertained, but it is known to be a very considerable portion.” It wasn’t until the 1830s that laws in England, the United States, and elsewhere codified the use of cadavers and made dissection legal and accepted.

The quasi-religious belief that there are rights that exist "in nature" prior to law and which all governments are obliged to observe is a popular one -- and was with the founders -- and part of the basis for the use of the term "inalienable right".