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This is a matter of scale, though. There is a big difference between - Someone wants to know if your DNA matches the killer's... so they get a hold of your DNA

This is a matter of scale, though. There is a big difference between - Someone wants to know if your DNA matches the killer's... so they get a hold of your DNA and test it - The companies you interact with all have easy access to everyone's DNA and can make decisions based on things like who is the most likely to get addicted to gambling. We've been fighting tooth and nail to prevent things like "people with hispanic surnames have a harder time getting a loan for a house". It's illegal to do so, and we still have problems with it. Now talking about adding in all kinds of "this person is more likely to have this condition" into those calculations. And they WILL be included if they're available; even if it's not obvious.

slg 3y ago
>- The companies you interact with all have easy access to everyone's DNA and can make decisions based on things like who is the most likely to get addicted to gambling. Yes, that is exactly my point. In these hypothetical dystopias, this is going to apply to "everyone's DNA" and not just some subset of people. In order to fear volunteering your DNA, you need to fear a very specific level of dystopia in which this illegal DNA discriminating becomes common, but companies don't do anything illegal to acquire the DNA data. It is like imagining that people could have escaped Nazi persecution if they just never admitted they were Jewish. Dystopias don't work like that. The evil people aren't going to give you a choice. If we are going to live in a dystopia, it likely isn't going to be the Goldilocks dystopia in which just the right amount of evilness exists for this to be an issue.