“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.” Russell

Russel in the above statement highlights the dual sphere of public and private. While Duties, a sort of external accountability, is necesary in public sphere, Private sphere and personal relations harbour more intimate and voluntary behaviours & expectations.

In Professional Sphere a public servant is duty bound to fulfil his profesional dutis such as maintaining efficiency, being objective and transparent.

However the civil servant in private sphere is a mother or a wife in strict sense who is not duty bound to care for her family or children. Rather the private values of love, care and affection guides her personal relations.

One may argue that, as Kant emphasised, one's never can never evade her duties, even in private sphere. However, the terming private, intimate relations which are guided by values of care and love as "duties" may seem offensive.