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The thing you do when nobody's clapping and everybody's depending.
means A moral or legal obligation to do something — the responsibility that comes with a role, a relationship, or a job, whether or not you feel like fulfilling it.
from From Anglo-French duete, built on Old French deu, meaning 'owed' or 'due' — itself from Latin debere, 'to owe' (the same debt-laden root that gives us 'debt' and 'due'). So at its core, duty is simply something you owe: a debt paid not in coins but in conduct.
- latin root
- From debere, meaning to owe — duty is a debt
- customs term
- Duty also means tax on imported goods
- call of
- The phrase is older than the video game
- sense of
- Kant built entire ethics around acting from it
duty of care — legal obligation in tort law where defendants owe reasonable care to prevent foreseeable harm to others
filial duty — confucian concept requiring children to respect and care for aging parents, practiced in east asian cultures
duty to rescue — legal obligation in france and germany requiring bystanders to help people in danger or call emergency services