The reason that Sigmund Freud and, later, Sadger folded sadism and masochism together is that they saw them as mirror-images of each other, two different responses to the command to act like a father.
However, if the C.I.A. were given broader authority, it could call for help from the military or deputize some forces of the Special Operations Command to act under the authority of the agency.
If a DESS cannot respond to voltage regulation needs, but the system give a command to act, the DESS maybe break down.
Life or death can hang in the balance, as it did in the film and as it does, for example, in mental health care when someone has decided to suicide; or believes they are God and commanded to act in a way destructive to others; or is addicted to drugs, alcohol, or tobacco; and countless other instances when someone has exited from reason and responsibility.
But the theological voluntarist may deny that acting justly is morally required prior to God's commanding it, any more than acting courageously, temperately, or prudently are morally required prior to God's commanding us to act courageously, temperately, or prudently.
In the previous section we saw that, on Kant's view, the moral law is a purely formal principle that commands us to act only on maxims that have what he calls lawgiving form, which maxims have only if they can be willed as universal laws.
Role-playing, acting "as if" we were someone else, changes our outlook and our behavior, and so that is why the Seder commands us to act "as if we ourselves went forth from Egypt" -- because Passover, at its heart, is truly an act of role-playing.
Manning brought the "Collateral Murder" video and other documents to Wikileaks after going to people above her in the chain of command who refused to act.
In all likelihood, the puppy's response to your command will be to act as though you've said nothing or that you've actually told him to jump up and down, run around in circles, bark loudly, and/or wag his tail vigorously.
Some Pentagon officials said that it was unrealistic to think a quick-reaction force could have been sent in time even if the African Command had one ready to act on the base in Sicily when the attack unfolded, and asserted that such a small force might not have even been effective or the best means to protect an embassy.
Earlier he said that Russia had lost patience with Ukraine's chain of command and had had to act to save perishable goods and he hoped the ICRC would help now distribute the aid.
