MAP Forum

What should informed consent be considered for, if being informed is only a means to pave deeper into the unknown? Informed consent now becomes consent with naivety; is this not a profound contradiction? To believe that consent and informativity are correlated with an ultimately good experience is a fundamental error. This problem of the way we view informed consent needs to be reformed: Reformed consent (not anti-consent). Without it, consent is nothing. Only those who lie on the outside of the socius—those who have absolutely nothing left to lose—will ever be willing to assassinate this prominent problem of consent. This notion paves way into a deeper problem pertaining to the components of social cohesion: regurgitating enforced ideals by way of selective mutism through social reputability (where debates are useless). Anyone who has had relationships would know at the very least that this idealization of consent neglects the important social operation of careful selectivity. It paves way for an entry to exploratory experiences; something that problematically develops behind initial parameters of which already have a propensity to be curbed or exploited. On the other end, they also develop beyond parameterized systems and thresholds: Relationship status, Sexuality, Gender, and Age. We already have the capabilities of human interaction we deserve; we have never intrinsically subsumed ourselves into these parameterized systems. Such systems tend to induce problematic dissonances, something that especially deviates from the order of our human nature, and not nature in the idealized form: nature in its intrinsic form. Love is not first meant to be codified, it is first meant to be expressed. The movement of love precedes the social code, and love prevails! There is no need for a code, there is no need for a threshold, there is no need for a global systematization. There is only other needs: a radical change in the way we view consent. There is a need for teaching, there is a need for learning, and indeed there is still a need of social excommunication for those who perform unethical acts. Only those who are willing to accept the true nature of love may welcome themselves in where the wicked stay out. Consent is not merely capable via affixed parameters, consent is first a welcoming.