One might believe that when one is a part of a specific group that there is an obligation to act properly in representation of that group. Many have believed this, but John Winthrop preached it to his fellow Puritans. Also, the President of the United States, for example, has a moral obligation to his country to protect it and represent it to other countries. An individual who is in NJROTC might be more careful when in uniform so that people will see him representing hit unit poorly. All of those representatives have moral obligations to their people/country/unit.

When the Puritans came to the "New World" the eyes of the "Old World" were on them, or so they thought. The Puritans came to the New World because they wanted to preach the Bible "correctly". They believed that they had a moral obligation to God and their fellow...