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user-inactivated  ·  3847 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are we obligated to choose noble professions?

Since ought implies can, we can only be obligated to to choose a noble profession, by whatever definition of noble you like, if we are all able to choose a noble profession. Unless your definition of "noble" is so broad that it doesn't really mean anything (the "nobility of labor", say), I don't think that's true. I do think there's an obligation not to do harm/facilitate to doing of harm, and that's a hard enough standard to meet.