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The good news is - you don't have to! But I don't mind giving my DNA if it means my mass murdering 2nd cousin might be caught.
by oh_sigh 7y ago
The good news is - you don't have to! But I don't mind giving my DNA if it means my mass murdering 2nd cousin might be caught.
- tbyehl 7y agoHow will you feel when your 2nd cousin is convicted of being a murderer based on nothing more than shed skin cells, and your whole family believes their alibi of being with their mother, but the jury doesn't because mothers lie for their children and DNA transference sounds far-fetched? That's the nightmare scenario of familial matching and government access to / creation of DNA databases.
- oh_sigh 7y agoHow many people have been falsely convicted(or even justly convicted) because their skin cells were found at the scene, with no other evidence?
- tbyehl 7y agoHow would we know? Here's a story of someone who came close and probably would have been convicted had their attorney not credibly identified a source of the transference. https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/ https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/
- pessimizer 7y agoWhat if it means your homosexual or blaspheming 2nd cousin might be caught?
- oh_sigh 7y agoI don't live in a society where that is an issue.
- homonculus1 7y agoThis is an example of the "end of history" fallacy, which assumes that civil and cultural freedoms do not regress once they are attained. But in fact, limits on policing are the very reason why homosexuals and blasphemers were able to get enough of a voice to become accepted in the first place.
- oh_sigh 7y agoIt's a fallacy to suggest that any possible future is a probable future. I donated blood earlier today. Maybe I shouldn't have because there is a possible future where a newly evolved disease is discovered that is rampant in sterile needles, lays relatively dormant for 10 years in people, and then kills them.
- homonculus1 7y agoPersecution of minorities is not a possible future, it is a fact of the present. It was even worse in the recent past, and what progress we've made is not the result of predestined change in sentiment but of prioritizing civil liberties instead of the boogeyman of crime and moral degeneracy. You don't punch holes in the levee after the flooding stops.
- oh_sigh 7y agoAs a gay blasphemer, I'm going to take my chances on this one. I appreciate the concern though.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoI don't think they reuse needles for that any more.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoSorry to tell you but a droplet of your DNA ended up in the vial of a serial rapist. So sorry that we tore your life apart when you were so obviously guilty. Mistakes happen, eh?