3 ms·
That's an interesting point, but if your government becomes blatantly oppressive they don't need DNA to do it.
by all_blue_chucks 6y ago
That's an interesting point, but if your government becomes blatantly oppressive they don't need DNA to do it.
- austhrow743 6y agoNo but the DNA database helps them track you down.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoSure. They might outlaw brown hair, too. They might outlaw last names with vowels. That hypothetical, imaginary risk doesn't make it sensible to dye your hair and change your name.
- asenk 6y agoTell the 6 million Jews, hundreds of thousands to million+ Romanis, and hundreds of thousands of disabled who were systematically exterminated by gassing, shootings, starvation and various other means that being outlawed is a "hypothetical risk". Even beyond WW2 to say what you said is so incredibly against any form of historical understanding that one must start to wonder what your motive with it is.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoYour motive appears to be to troll from a position of ignorance. No, DNA tests do not cause holocausts.
- kzrdude 6y agoThe resistance movement in Norway, during WWii, targeted and blew up the citizen registry, because it was used for evil. Any database we build now could be used like that. Now they are easily copied, so we won't be able to blow them up when it's already too late--we must avoid building them.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoDo you think it was a mistake for countries to continue compiling databases of citizens after WWII? Census? Phone books? These are all mistakes?
- Symmetry 6y agoMore to the point, the government can just collect your DNA itself if it wants to.