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Perhaps not in the current legal climate, but those can be changed. Since DNA is the source code to your body, I think we're in for some interesting times. It c
by zlg_codes 3y ago
Perhaps not in the current legal climate, but those can be changed. Since DNA is the source code to your body, I think we're in for some interesting times. It can be argued that your DNA is a part of you, since it made you, and it can be made illegal to gather or even sequence our DNA unless certain thresholds are crossed.
Like it or not, politics is not a singular immutable thing. We can reframe things, just as governments do to justify their garbage. Society is but putty, and we can mold it to our liking, or sit quietly like livestock and await government to decide what we're allowed to think and feel.
- dylan604 3y agoEven if we change it today, wouldn't all of the docile little sheep that used ancestry.com or 23andMe type sites provide such a baseline that for generations future humans could be traced back. Supposedly, they can track back a very large portion of the population to Genghis Khan
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- PeterisP 3y agoIt seems that the point which parent post wanted to make with "your DNA is not really yours" is that matching your DNA does not really need your DNA, as the DNA of your relatives (e.g. that aunt which opted-in to some genetic testing) is sufficient - your DNA isn't really yours because all your blood relatives share big parts of it, so their consent to use their DNA effectively provides most of your DNA as well.