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Full Idea
Many of our most important obligations are things we did not consent to. If you think you have obligations to your family, did you choose to have them as family members?
Gist of Idea
We have obligations to our family, even though we didn't choose its members
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 6 'Gratitude')
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.150
A Reaction
A question that gets close to the heart of the communitarian ideal, I think. We choose to have children, and we bring them up, but even then we don't choose who our children are.