Should we engage only in "somatic" gene editing: changing genes in affected tissues where they can't be passed on to the next generation?
To help shape such a future, the U.S. delegation should engage not only with Cuba's historic revolutionaries but also with its next generations of public and private leaders from across Cuban society.
If, in the thick of events and within the security-cordoned enclaves of government, those who command our forces falter when confronted with the reality of these terrible losses, maybe our sympathies should engage not only with the predicament of the casualties and their families, but with that of their commanders also?
Writing against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, the 17th-century Dutch diplomat and philosopher Hugo Grotius saw value in dialogue but recommended against talking to "wicked states". Twentieth-century British writer and diplomat Harold Nicolson qualified that position; he said states should engage other states, but only so long as their diplomats reflected the will of elected officials.
Kreisky's grand conspiracy, as it happened, consisted of one lone writer clutching a single sheet of paper, an appeal for signatures to a statement that quoted a Chekhovian aperçu: "Writers and artists should engage themselves in politics only enough to protect themselves from politics".
This paper has emphasized that Latin America should engage in mitigation efforts only if international incentives are put in place.
At the time, a senior Samsung official, quoted in the Chosunilbo daily, noted, "We concluded that we should engage in legal battles with Apple only in the global market, but not in order to gain more market share in Korea".
"We concluded that we should engage in legal battles with Apple only in the global market, but not in order to gain more market share in Korea," an unnamed Samsung executive said.
Emissions trading is not the only policy we should engage in.
Socrates tells his interlocutors that the only politics that should engage them are those of the anti-democratic regime he depicts as the paradigm of a good constitution.
