Consent
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Throughout this process, ASEAN’s leaders must bear in mind a crucial lesson of the EU: high-level agreements that lack the
consent
of ordinary people have limited effectiveness and longevity.
Not so long ago, physical treatments such as lobotomy and ECT could be inflicted on patients without their consent, and sometimes for punitive purposes.
And, whereas few people now get ECT involuntarily, and in all cases
consent
is sought, a large and growing number get antipsychotic drugs under false pretences, including children, vulnerable adults, patients with Alzheimer’s, and a host of others whose lives are shortened by treatment, with no effort undertaken to seek their
consent.
For this reason, triggering the OMT mechanism requires the unanimous
consent
of eurozone governments.
In international law, debt that is incurred without the
consent
of the people, and that is not used to their benefit, is referred to as “odious”; as such, it is not considered transferable to successor regimes.
Moreover, airstrikes in Syria without the government’s
consent
or Security Council authorization will be manifestly in breach of the United Nations Charter.
Crucially, the US also needs to stop withholding
consent
for the IMF to reform and deploy additional resources from all countries.
Some are impaired in their ability to give informed
consent
due to mental or cognitive disabilities, or are exposed to coercion, improper monitoring, and pervasive conflicts of interest.
His counterpart at South Korea’s foreign ministry commented that his country would “never tolerate” Japan’s exercise of the right to collective self-defense on the Korean peninsula “without the [Republic of Korea’s] request or consent.”
This may be because the changes require investment in new technology, retraining of employees, or simply buying stakeholders’
consent.
The crucial point is that regardless of who is right philosophically, it is only insofar as people accept some such appeal that the legitimacy principle underlying popular sovereignty can work to secure their
consent.
So the world must now ponder that old Latin maxim qui tacet consentere videtur – silence means
consent
– and ask itself if it is wise to quietly
consent
to Putin’s construction of a lawless energy superpower.
Qui tacet consentire videtur (silence means consent).
In this case, tacit
consent
emboldens terrorist actors, with deadly results.
A generally comprehensible constitution with a cogent preamble describing the Union's purpose and core ideas, and which defines the basic institutions of the Union, their areas of competence and mutual relations, is essential to stimulating broad public
consent
and support.
It would be interesting to know what level of risk other leaders thought they were exposing us to, and what odds most citizens would have accepted, had they been asked to give their informed
consent.
This is one reason why the Kingdom moved troops into Bahrain when Arab Spring protests by the country’s Shia majority erupted – and why America, having learned its lesson in Iraq, gave its tacit
consent.
The new law requires the
consent
of 80% of a major tract’s landowners before the state can acquire it, and includes exacting provisions for the rehabilitation and resettlement of those affected.
Although it established the requirement of common
consent
to taxation, that
consent
was to be obtained from an assembly of earls, barons, bishops, and abbots – in the age of chivalry, not even knights were invited to participate.
It should be self-evident that technologies like gene drives, which don’t require widespread adoption to have a widespread effect, should never be released without informed community
consent.
Indeed, this is the only democraticand stable definition of European citizenship, because it alone is capable of eliciting the
consent
and allegiance of every individual.
Gaining the
consent
of the majority of citizens to raise taxes can be a tall order politically, and has become more difficult as capital mobility has narrowed the tax base and triggered a race to the bottom on rates.
If the United States now pressured its reluctant European allies to
consent
to some scheme of eastward expansion, it would jeopardize the bonds that link America to Europe.
In addition, poorer and vulnerable communities need to be included in the process from the beginning, so that they can provide full prior
consent.
A patient’s informed
consent
should be a prerequisite for all medical treatment, as long as the patient is a competent adult in a position to make a decision.
Significantly, neither the Pope’s remarks, nor the Declaration on Euthanasia , place any emphasis on the importance of obtaining the voluntary and informed
consent
of patients, where possible, before shortening their lives.
The doctrine of double effect, properly understood, does not justify what the doctors did; but, by inuring them to the practice of shortening patients’ lives without obtaining consent, it seems to have paved the way for intentional killing.
Rawls proposed the veil of ignorance as a way to derive principles of social justice to which anyone who did not know in advance their identity and position in society would
consent.
For example, the age of sexual
consent
for girls cannot be set above nine, because Muhhamad himself had a nine-year-old wife.
If the Irish Supreme Court were to decide that the ESM requires popular consent, the EU would be faced with the prospect of yet another Irish referendum on Europe.
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