Odd sort of take on things, isn’t it?
If you haven’t raped or murdered someone, you shouldn’t be worried about commercial DNA services, should you?
“If you haven’t raped or murdered someone, you shouldn’t be worried about commercial DNA services, should you?”
Of course not. Everyone knows that the technology is perfect and incapable of an error.
“should you?”
Yes you should. DNA testing is not perfect. False positives do occur. People make mistakes, including the lab geeks processing samples.
Unlike Monopoly’s “Bank error in your favor recieve $200”, a test error to your detriment can lead to SWAT descending on your house in the middle of the night.
If you and your dog survive that experience, you still run the risk of civil asset forfeiture.
DNA analysis is a great tool, but many see it as the be all end all, which is a fatal error.
OJ Simpson agrees with you.
It doesn’t take rape or murder to get a government employee interested in having bad things happening to you. You have no guarantees that you will never in the future have somebody in government wishing you harm.
DNA isn’t just gotten from blood or semen. A glass you used, a cigarette you dropped, an article of clothing with a few of your hairs on it ... the technology of retrieving DNA gets more sophisticated every year.
A) Anything can be misused or abused. It need not even be intentional.
B) That is the same argument used to validate the anti-Patriot Act.
Exchange blood for guns in this example. “You can have your guns, and if you have no murderous intent with them, you should have no problem entering their serial numbers into a database.”
Still feel the same way?