Self-obligation

Is it morally wrong to not take care of yourself?

Have you ever felt guilty for how you treated yourself? Maybe you promised yourself you would work towards some goal and you failed to do so, or you continued to feed yourself unhealthy food, or kept yourself sleep-deprived because you wouldn’t stop doomscrolling in bed. Of course, we all sometimes make unwise choices or do things that have bad consequences. But there’s another intriguing possibility: that, in some cases, we owed it to ourselves to treat ourselves better – in other words, that we have moral obligations to ourselves. So, do such self-obligations exist? Do we feel their pull in everyday life? ….[READ]