Tag Archives: obligation

madeleine albright thinks I'm going to hell

The other day, I saw a Madeleine Albright quote in my Twit­ter time­line. I don’t know if this Time mag­a­zine inter­view is the orig­i­nal source, but this is the quote (bold): What advice do you have for women who want respect from their male col­leagues? Dana Philbin, CHICAGO Women have to be active lis­ten­ers and

on the moral status of donating blood

Yes­ter­day, I went and gave some blood. This got me think­ing about the moral sta­tus of donat­ing blood. It’s got to be either oblig­a­tory or supereroga­tory. You might recall these def­i­n­i­tions from my pre­vi­ous post on boy­cotting mar­riage: Oblig­a­tory: If an action is morally oblig­a­tory, that means that you must do it, from the moral