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I'll sign up for this. I'd gladly see a cousin, father, or brother go to jail if they are a murderer, or rapist, or whatever.
by oh_sigh 8y ago
I'll sign up for this. I'd gladly see a cousin, father, or brother go to jail if they are a murderer, or rapist, or whatever.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI don't think that's the concern of anyone here. What about when it's incarcerating the family of anyone who ever posted on HN?
- oh_sigh 8y agoI put the odds of that happening at pretty much 0. Sometimes it is fun to think about the odds of me getting hit by a meteorite if I leave my underground bunker, but I'm not going to let that dictate my daily life.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoPersonally, I'm counting on my tinfoil hat to protect me.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoSame. Law enforcement already has plenty of tools to implement totalitarianism, should that be the goal of the political class. If we are in the dark universe where this eventually comes to pass, a DNA database is not going to make much of a difference in one way or another. On the other hand, in the world where we have good leaders, this tool offers a material delta in the finding and convicting of dangerous criminals.
- rabidrat 8y ago> in the world where we have good leaders This seems to be the faulty axiom in your logic.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoIt's not an axiom. It's a variable. It was meant to be parallel to the sentence, "If we are in the dark universe . . ."