I'm not remotely saying that this is what is happening now, but I ask: how many more people would've been murdered by Hitler if he had a DNA database?
What happens if later a racist dictator gets ahold of such a database later in history and is able to exercise this greater power?
What is the chance of a politcal dissent when the police can go down to the groups meeting place with a cotton swab and arrest and imprison (or worse) all the particpants the next day???
Have our British brethren forgotten their greatest thinkers and writers? Is John Stuart Mill or George Orwell ever read anymore? It takes very little imagination to see how such a technology could (and unless we learn from history, will) be used by a government for mass extermination.
The entity (the government) which has the sole right to hold a gun to a citizen (use physical force,) should not be allowed the right to trace and track society. Otherwise there will be no way to control the government.
It's important to remember that many thousands of times more people have been killed by oppressive governments than by small time criminals.
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I'm not remotely saying that this is what is happening now, but I ask: how many more people would've been murdered by Hitler if he had a DNA database?
What happens if later a racist dictator gets ahold of such a database later in history and is able to exercise this greater power?
What is the chance of a politcal dissent when the police can go down to the groups meeting place with a cotton swab and arrest and imprison (or worse) all the particpants the next day???
Have our British brethren forgotten their greatest thinkers and writers? Is John Stuart Mill or George Orwell ever read anymore? It takes very little imagination to see how such a technology could (and unless we learn from history, will) be used by a government for mass extermination.
The entity (the government) which has the sole right to hold a gun to a citizen (use physical force,) should not be allowed the right to trace and track society. Otherwise there will be no way to control the government.
It's important to remember that many thousands of times more people have been killed by oppressive governments than by small time criminals.