Legislators, regulators, and other policy makers clearly have duties and responsibilities associated with the "moral imperative" principle as it relates to pain in our society.
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That requires that their pursuit violates no categorical rational imperative or principle.
The moral underpinnings of humanitarianism talks about imperatives and principles, with a focus on "doing no harm," aiding "according to need" and doing so in a neutral, impartial, universal, and humane manner (and so forth).
We argue that there is an imperative to consider principles of coherence (what to measure), standardization (how to measure) and decision-relevance (why to measure) when designing monitoring schemes if they are to be practical and useful.
Discovery of such functional modules within biological networks is imperative for understanding principles of cellular organization and functions.
A hypothetical imperative is a principle of rationality that says that I should act in a certain way if I choose to satisfy some desire.
DIY-Bio fully subscribes to the first principle of the hacker ethic, as formulated in Steven Levy's 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: "Always yield to the hands-on imperative!" Employing this principle requires free access to the tools of scientific investigation, open information, and knowledge sharing.
However, the risk is that the humanitarian response itself will be politicized, with diplomatic and counter-terror imperatives trumping humanitarian principles, which mandate that impartial response to vulnerability is the most important criterion for determining the nature and scope of the response.
There is no gold standard for choosing the types of diseases for inclusion in the BPCDO, so we think it is imperative that a principle for the reimbursement of chronic disease should be set up at a national level.
