>Saying that this service will be used to " help prevent violent crimes, save lives, or bring closure to families" is naive at best and something monstrous at w

>Saying that this service will be used to " help prevent violent crimes, save lives, or bring closure to families" is naive at best and something monstrous at worst. It will because it has been used to do just that. > Genocide, for example It's not like humans have had difficulty committing genocide in the past without DNA databases. The Rwandan genocide, for example, was done primarily with machetes and coordinated by radio. Similarly the rest of your hypothetical situations can be done without DNA testing if society wished to act in that manner. I don't see much weight in your scenarios at least compared with actual murderers and rapists going to jail.