or what your position is going to be in that society,

或者明确你在社会中的角色之前
that means that you have a binding obligation

你就已经对一个完全未知的团体
to a complete unknown body

承担必须履行的义务了
that could be, completely foreign to all of your personal beliefs

这个团体可能与你个人信仰完全相悖
or what you would hold to be correct.

或者与你的价值观相悖
Do you think that that kind of communal obligation or patriotism

你是否认为公共义务或爱国主义
means writing the community a blank moral check?

使得道德有名无实
Basically, yeah.

基本上是这样
I think it's reasonable to say that as you grow

我认为我们可以说
and as you develop within the community

随着你在社群里的成长和发展
that you acquire some type of obligation based on reciprocity

基于互惠原则你必须承担一些责任
but to say that you have a moral obligation

但是若说你拥有道德义务