 We can make sense of these valuable practices and relationships only if we correctly understand the role that the obligations associated with them are meant to play. Indeed, some go further and argue that given that these roles are typically crucial components of our own identity, correctly understanding the obligations in question is necessary to avoid being alienated from ourselves (Horton 2010; Tamir 1995). The social preconditions of our identity are partly constituted by these obligations, so making sense of them is required to ultimately make sense of who we are. By making sense of these obligations, we ultimately make sense of ourselves.