erogatory

comparative more erogatory · superlative most erogatory

1. ethicsDoing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.

   For gay celebrities, is the duty to come out erogatory or supererogatory, and similarly, if others have a duty to out them, is this erogatory or supererogatory?

   2015, Laurie J. Shrage, Robert Scott Stewart, Philosophizing About Sex, →ISBN

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   Indeed, if the costs of going to war were lowered, what was supererogatory might become erogatory: lowering the costs to humanitarian war may take away one of the principal motivations (the harm to the intervening agent) for making it supererogatory.

   2013, Bradley Jay Strawser, Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, →ISBN

   One might say, plausibly, that the second is “merely erogatory”; it counts as the fulfillment of one's moral obligations, but not in a way that is particularly morally special.

   2016, Dale Dorsey, The Limits of Moral Authority, →ISBN, page 62