https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2014/08/13/the-potential-condescension-of-informed-consent/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2014/08/13/the-potential-condescension-of-informed-consent/comment-page-1/#comment-72672 Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:40:47 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2665#comment-72672 To me this overlaps with the recent post on microaggression, a topic that continues to eat at me. The connection is the question of when we need rules, and when we can let courtesy, discretion, responsibility, the give and take of interaction, and ultimately the messiness of life do their things. I don’t have an answer in rule form, ha, but generally I’m in favor of letting processes play out. Even if sometimes that casts us as Elisha Cook in The Big Sleep.

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