Public debt. What is he like?

In our everyday life, events happen all the time that upset and resent us. Despite the fact that some capital and unspoken laws have been adopted in society, it often happens that certain individuals openly ignore them. What makes some people abide by these laws, and others neglect them?

What is a person’s social duty

Based on the definition of this concept, it means a person accepts the need to submit to the will of society. Since a person is a social being, in any case, during life, he enters into various relationships with the people around him that form society.

Entering into the relationship with society, we automatically acquire certain responsibilities. These responsibilities form a person’s social duty. Moreover, they are inherently objective, i.e. independent of our desire. Whether we like it or not, we must fulfill these responsibilities, otherwise society will not accept us. Asocial people drop out of the so-called human community and become a source of trouble and misfortune both for society itself and for itself.

Responsibility and duty as factors of relations in society

Public debt is very closely related to the concept of responsibility. It is she who dictates the need to constantly fulfill obligations to society. Debt is a person’s obligation, which is fulfilled under the influence of not only external requirements. Internal moral motives are the factor on which the need to fulfill a public duty is based. The exact performance of their duties is not enough. Society expects a person to have a personal relationship with them. Awareness of one’s duty, its voluntary acceptance, personal interest in fulfilling one’s duties - all these factors put a person’s social and moral duty at the stage that leads to highly developed relations in society.

Properties and features of the manifestation of debt

The first property of debt is the awareness of its necessity. In order for a person to fulfill his duty to society, he must understand why this is necessary. Having understood the reasons, a person comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to perform certain duties in order to maintain public order and normal relations in society.

This implies the second property of debt - interest in performance. Realizing the need to perform certain duties, a person becomes personally interested, and moral motives are connected to the awareness of public duty.

Based on the first two properties, public debt is also characterized by the voluntariness of its performance. Many, especially duties not fixed at the legislative level , are performed by citizens without coercion, and only conscience acts as a controlling factor.

Debt control

We came to the question of who controls the fulfillment of our civic duties. Above we are talking about such a thing as a person’s conscience. It is she who is the internal controller in this case. What is conscience?

Believers believe that it is the voice of God within man and that important feeling that is given to everyone at birth. Of course, some people are more conscientious, others less. However, this feeling is to one degree or another inherent in almost all people, with rare exceptions. Probably, scientists will never be able to reveal the secret of conscience. Conscience dictates to fulfill a public duty, and also controls its implementation.

In addition to internal control, of course, there is external control. Society itself judges how responsibly one or another citizen fulfills his duties. Public opinion is the regulator of the relationship between society and a single individual.