0 expecting to be obeyed immediately and without any questions:
He started issuing peremptory instructions.
She was highly critical of the insensitive and peremptory way in which the cases had been handled.
1 having the expectation of immediate and complete obedience, or to be obeyed without explanation:
In his usual peremptory manner, he ordered us all into the conference room.
With the peremptory norm, in particular, we leave behind the world of democratically decided actions to be monitored and reviewed.
The above comments apply in particular to the peremptory norm.
The rules are peremptory because once you adopt them, you start treating them as categorical.
So rules motivationally guide action by being content-independent and peremptory reasons for action.
Humor is then coopted as a damage-control strategy to preserve good working relations in the face of the peremptory veto.
But this will not be the result of one's treating something as a peremptory reason.
The student would no longer be making a tentative suggestion, but a peremptory request.
The second set of arguments tried to show that rules qua content-independent peremptory reasons for action are motivationally inert.
