In addition to negotiating the tension between these course-related goals, at any given time, respondents also weighed the costs of responding, or not, to assessment against attending to the many other imperatives and interests in their lives.
Despite the conventional wisdom, Mr. Obama did a pretty good job last week of threading the needle between the imperative to respond to the gassing of civilians by President Bashar al-Assad's government and the overwhelming desire of Americans not to get bogged down in another fight.
But those passages regularly link the duty to avoid evil to a positive duty to do good: "The moral imperative to respond to the needs of our neighbors — basic needs such as food, shelter, health care, education and meaningful work — is universally binding on our consciences".
However, it is essential that clinicians grasp fully the importance of the dialogue and learn ways of responding dynamically, creatively and individually to particular patients' concerns so that the patient's unique experience is not overshadowed by institutional imperatives.
"It is imperative to respond promptly so that these thousands of children have the health, sanitation, support and education services they need," he added.
"It is imperative to respond promptly so that these thousands of children have the health, sanitation, support and education services they need to save lives and ensure wellbeing in such difficult circumstances".
Now here's the rub: if corporations and governments are going to up the ante by treating data as an asset, then we – the targets of this data imperative – should respond in kind.
It is imperative that we respond this time by making sure that America will not be held hostage by unfriendly oil suppliers who finance terrorism and teach hatred of the West.
It is imperative, first of all, that responding to the hepatitis C epidemic is part of the public agenda, that both policymakers and communities are aware that the problem exists, and that they understand what can be done to prevent and treat it.
Interestingness is the categorical imperative of Sehgal's world.
