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The upsetting thing with this whole "paying for the privilege of giving someone else your DNA" trend, is that even if you are opposed to it, relatives of yours
by laken 8y ago
The upsetting thing with this whole "paying for the privilege of giving someone else your DNA" trend, is that even if you are opposed to it, relatives of yours essentially give your data too. For example, apparently, both my mother and father have already sent off their DNA to these various ancestry companies, which by extension means that I'm also in there, albeit slightly detached.
- blitmap 8y agoI dislike this too. It's like someone licensed your IP and gave it away freely to ancestry.com. The metaphor doesn't really fit if you are the derivative child, but yeah... the insurance companies would already be able to make predictions about me.
- bumholio 8y agoSharing genes with other people has indeed been a source of headaches since the beginning of time (take, for example, the whole Garden of Eden fiasco). Luckily, the advantages of being inside the genetic group, like say inheritance, usually outweigh the nuisance.
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