In the Guardian Jonathan Myerson has a provocative opinion piece where he argues for a change in attitudes towards people's DNA being held on centralised government databases. He reckons everyone's DNA ought to be held, and that compared with other information we already relinquish without complaint - employment history, for example - people make far too much fuss about DNA.
Does this issue hinge solely on the question of how much information about a person DNA reveals? Would everybody being on such databases be fairer? Would such a system actually be logistically feasible?
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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You do realize that the DNA database is nothing more than a hi-tech version of what the nazis used, don't you?
ReplyDeleteThis is too open to abuse, and it will not have any positive effect on crime levels or punishment. What does DNA evidence matter if the liberal judges give them a slap on the wrists.
Seriously, the DNA database is yet another measure to gain control by an authoritarian government. It does not surprise me that The Guardian approves; it's an insidious newspaper, full of raving looneys.
LN