The Importance of Moral Obligations

I began this book by asking a question, how is it that moral obligations between people come to be thought of as debts and end up justifying behaviour that would otherwise seem utterly immoral. I made a distinction between commercial economies and what i call human economies, that is, those where money acts primarily as a social currency to create, maintain or sever relations with others. As ros babe so cogently demonstrated, it is the peculiar quality of such social currencies that they are never quite equivalent to people. If anything, they are a constant reminder that human beings can never be equivalent to anything, even ultimately to one another. This is the profound truth of the blood feud. No one can ever really forgive