Consent: Difference between revisions

==What is Consent?==

Consent is an act of the power of the mind to think and understand, to reason and perform careful consideration of participation with something, and to reflect on the consequences of that participation. The proper meaning of consent is a person who exercises sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent decision that is demonstrated through the genuine willingness of an action, as the result of reaching an agreement in mutual or shared interests, or performing an action that is proposed by another. Consent is not real consent any longer when tactics of terror, intimidation, deception and fear are used as an explicit tool to manufacture consent in a person, in order to get them to go along with performing an action. Obviously, this is coercion administered under threat of personal harm. Thus, we can be made aware that many people’s consent is stolen, manipulated and manufactured through the specific psychological targeting of the masses with intimidation, bullying, terrorism and victimization fears. This is a [[Media Manipulation|mass media psychological operation]] used to traumatize the world citizens, distracting them from comprehending the power of consent.

==Implied Consent==

Implied consent is dependent on the circumstances that exist which lead a reasonable person to believe that this consent was given, although no direct or explicit words of consent or agreement had been actually written or expressed. Implied consent is based on the person’s behaviors or actions in a particular situation or surroundings. An example of implied consent is that if you are participating with a larger institution, such as an educational institution, these places are mechanisms of social order which govern the behavior of the individuals that exist within that community. Implied consent would mean that if you choose to participate with that institution, you are expected to follow their rules. In gaining access to ES Community as a learning environment based upon the Law of One, implied consent would be that our members are in agreement to follow the guidelines of behavior that are outlined and are in consent with the practices of the Law of One. For someone governed by another guideline of behavior or belief system that is contradictory to the main practices, it would generate cognitive dissonance if they were to actually become a member.

==Informed Consent==

[[Informed Consent]] is a legal term and ethical principle that describes biological ethics, it was introduced after World War II and it replaced the earlier medical attitudes that were founded on having implicit trust in a doctor’s decisions, and put patients in charge of their own care. [[Informed Consent]] is the process for getting permission before involving that person in some kind of situation that impacts bodily health or wellbeing, usually related to medical research or clinical experiments, such as being informed of the potential risks a therapy or drug and giving informed consent before being provided it.  Informed consent, can be said to be given, when a person has been educated to understand the facts and considers the implication and possible consequences of an action, which will impact them. Therefore the term informed consent is an ethical and legal principle in which a person exercises their right to gather more data for analysis and perform their own due diligence, to better understand the facts and consequences of making a choice that impacts them. '''Informed consent is directly related to preserving a human beings right to self-ownership, autonomy and the prevention of abusive conduct.'''

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