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>I mean, what other technologies should we deny ourselves? A tyrant can use tanks and troop transports to wage war on their citizens. Should we tear up the road

>I mean, what other technologies should we deny ourselves? A tyrant can use tanks and troop transports to wage war on their citizens. Should we tear up the roads lest they be abused by tyranny? As you have been overly fond of using tu quoque as a rhetorical device throughout this thread ─ in your earlier response, you trivialised the exercise of willingly handing-over the most precious of all and the pinnacle of personal data, whilst paying for the privilege, and compared it to just another transaction on Amazon: what about the fact, that almost all tyrants are enabled and empowered by somebody (usually the govt.); it would be conducive to conclude based upon your fervour, that you are equally complicit in creating yet another tyrannical corporation, which shares your disdain for privacy?

shadowgovt 7y ago
Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy. Apart from that, I'll absolutely own that I want to see them succeed; I believe in the likelihood that big-data analysis is a valuable tool in conquering the diseases that have been resistant to past methods of devising cures. I volunteered my DNA for this purpose (and none of the DNA that 23andme holds wasn't volunteered for this purpose).
- johnnycab 7y ago
  >Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy If you seek an answer to that question, you don't have to venture very far from Google, who birthed this creation.
  - shadowgovt 7y ago
    I don't seek an answer, because I believe the question is answered that 23andme is not tyrannical and doesn't disdain privacy. Neither does Google, for that matter, and I think many people agree with such an assessment (Gmail has nearly half a billion active users). "Begs the question" means your argument presupposed the truth of this part of the statement instead of supporting it.

shadowgovt 7y ago

Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy. Apart from that, I'll absolutely own that I want to see them succeed; I believe in the likelihood that big-data analysis is a valuable tool in conquering the diseases that have been resistant to past methods of devising cures. I volunteered my DNA for this purpose (and none of the DNA that 23andme holds wasn't volunteered for this purpose).

johnnycab 7y ago
>Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy If you seek an answer to that question, you don't have to venture very far from Google, who birthed this creation.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  I don't seek an answer, because I believe the question is answered that 23andme is not tyrannical and doesn't disdain privacy. Neither does Google, for that matter, and I think many people agree with such an assessment (Gmail has nearly half a billion active users). "Begs the question" means your argument presupposed the truth of this part of the statement instead of supporting it.