Consent
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According to the organization, “it’s not logistically possible to obtain
consent
from each and every person affected” by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes.
But the reason it is difficult to acquire informed
consent
from all people affected by gene-drive experiments is the same reason that doing so is absolutely critical.
Securing the
consent
of only a handful of local residents simply is not good enough.
Negotiators had the right to withhold consent, but only if they put forth alternate proposals aimed at finding common ground.
America's authorities argued that Cuba's debt had not been incurred for the benefit of the Cuban people, nor with their consent, and that foreign loans helped to finance their oppression.
But Winata himself eluded police investigation, merely by claiming publicly that his followers acted without his prior knowledge and
consent.
As long as the Saudi regime meets America’s oil needs and fights Islamist radicals, it will continue to receive US support and silence – and hence its tacit
consent.
President James K. Polk provoked the Mexican-American war by sending American forces across the disputed Texas frontier without congressional
consent.
In the United Kingdom, the facial images of 12.5 million people, hundreds of thousands of whom are not guilty of a crime, are stored in the National Police Database (NPD), while HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC) has gathered over five million voice recordings without
consent.
Change in Iraq was imposed from the outside by force, whereas change in Egypt has come from within and has largely been accomplished by
consent
rather than coercion.
All of this physical degradation – as it happens – is accomplished with local
consent
and active local assistance.
No British prime minister could
consent
to a treaty change to create a fiscal union without having to call a referendum at home, the outcome of which would force the UK to withdraw from the EU.
Other creditors have endorsed this approach through silent
consent.
Germany’s
consent
was needed to create Europe’s “banking union,” which entailed the transfer of supervisory powers to the European Central Bank and the creation of a common fund to resolve failing banks.
“It’s their call,” he says, and that seems right – so long as people are properly informed of the risks and freely
consent
to take them.
The Sudanese government’s
consent
to the deployment of the hybrid United Nations/African Union mission, which aims to keep peace in the region, is of course a welcome development.
The app’s users did not know that this would happen, let alone
consent
to it, as it wasn’t included even in the fine print.
As a result, there is less resistance to ending patients' lives “for their own good,” with only the family's
consent
substituting for that of the patient, or even without the family's consent, and the practice gradually becomes socially acceptable.
According to the respected Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, “humanitarian” terminations by doctors occur at the rate of 10,000 per year in Holland, though how many “terminations” are done without patient or family
consent
is unclear.
One may ask whether transparency and the requirement that local landholders
consent
to a sale is enough to protect people living in poverty.
Instead, the conference was heavily attended and influenced by bioethicists, whose discipline Harvard University’s Steven Pinker characterized (correctly, in my experience) as “fetishizing sweeping rubrics such as dignity, equity, social justice, sacredness, privacy, and
consent
at the expense of the health and lives of actual people.”
But the truly important part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was its Secret Protocols, which divided Europe into two imperial domains, Stalin’s and Hitler’s, without the
consent
– or even the knowledge – of the nations consigned to them.
Yet efforts to communicate this to the public have been met with skepticism from some critics, who argue that the vaccine gives young girls tacit
consent
to engage in sexual activity, ultimately leading to an increase in promiscuity.
Governments need to adopt legislation that sets 18 as the minimum age for marriage – leaving no room for exceptions such as traditional practices or parental
consent.
On the other were conservatives, “a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial,
consent
to it with many misgivings and forebodings.”
Hence, the US runs most NATO civilian and military commands with the
consent
of the others.
The 1978 law allows government statisticians to ask “delicate” questions only if these questions are relevant for the survey and with the
consent
of the person polled.
But most observe a rule that is deeply embedded in international law and custom: claims should be pursued peacefully and by mutual
consent.
It did well to force Syria to give up its chemical weapons, and to authorize humanitarian access without the regime’s
consent.
Though China’s government established preliminary rules governing online privacy in 2012, many gray areas remain, including basic issues like the types of information companies can share, how that information can be used, and what constitutes consumer
consent.
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