Synonyms for moral obligation
moral obli·ga·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. moral obligationnoun

   an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong

   "he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation"

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1. • Duty

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1. Martin Lee:

   The Canadian government, having been lobbied successfully by China to support the Joint Declaration, certainly owes a moral obligation to the Hong Kong people when things are going wrong.

2. Sarah Verardo:

   It was because we knew that rescuing and protecting and preserving human life, even if our own government would not do it, we felt this moral obligation to our wartime allies and that happened not only in Afghanistan and continues to, but now we're doing the work with save our allies in Ukraine.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   For me, it's a religious thing, i believe this is God's creation, and we have a moral obligation to be good stewards.

4. New York:

   We do not take these actions lightly or with any sense of joy. We have both a duty and a moral obligation to protect the rule of law in our country, and we intend to do just that.

5. Lisa Madigan:

   By choosing not to thoroughly investigate allegations, the Catholic Church has failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois, the failure to investigate also means that the Catholic Church has never made an effort to determine whether the conduct of the accused priests was ignored or covered up by superiors.