Lesson 3. While you would be doing something above and beyond the call of moral duty if you were to stay attached to the violinist, you are not doing anything wrong by detaching yourself.
In other words, staying attached to the violinist would be supererogatory but not obligatory.
Obligatory: describes an action that is morally wrong not to perform; you do something wrong by nor performing the action.
Supererogatory: describes an action that is morally good, duty not obligatory; you do nothing wrong by not performing the action.
Applied to the issue of abortion, the lesson is that it would be supererogatory to continue an unwanted pregnancy to term, but it is not obligatory.
