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Well let's make it super-easy and nip this in the bud: let's just store a DNA sequence of everyone when they are born. That way, we can skip the whole hoovering
by JunkDNA 13y ago
Well let's make it super-easy and nip this in the bud: let's just store a DNA sequence of everyone when they are born. That way, we can skip the whole hoovering up business and for sure identify people. Are you ok with that?
- DanBC 13y agoWe need to be clear about why that doesn't work because it's exactly what some people want. Appeals to natural justice are correct, but won't persuade those people. We need to work out the problems with false negatives and false positives and tying an ID to a DNA string because that might persuade a few people about how bad the idea is.
- rayiner 13y agoSure. I can easily imagine it doing more good than harm. The fact is that police and juries, in the absence of very precise evidence, don't just go "geez, guess we gotta leave this one unsolved." Not with families and communities devastated by rapes, murders, etc. If they don't have precise evidence, like DNA, they will depend on less precise evidence, like finger prints or hair samples, or god forbid eyewitness testimony.
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