Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.
I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.