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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
What is this implicit assumption that DNA index = power?
Power to do what? Identify you? They already (try to) do that! A DNA index is just a superior authentication mechanism, one that would involve a lot less suffering for those being identified.
The not processing of rape kits has been shameful and many nonprofits are working to rectify that problem: https://www.rainn.org/articles/addressing-rape-kit-backlog
You don't experience the problem because you're likely wealthy and probably white. The fact that rich whites can so easily dismiss even the idea of police authentication as a problem just shows that rich white America isn't even aware what poor black people go through in this country every single day.
Comment · 7 years ago
Is the TSA the FBI? They're not looking for perpetrators, they're looking for terrorists. I promise you the US government has a vast database of biometric information of suspected terrorists.
The fact we all have to suffer thru terrible, imperfect authentication techniques like looking at your birthday shows we should have a database to save us all the grief.
Honestly all your arguments are actually GREAT reasons to have a national DNA index.
Comment · 7 years ago
Exactly! If we had a DNA database we could quickly clear people as innocent.
Instead we rely in inaccurate authentication measures like birthdays and names and photos...hence endless suffering.
DNA would positively or negatively identify people.
Besides, people are already voluntarily doing this at airports as part of the CLEAR program. So your horrible awful terrible nightmare scenario...literally goes on every day at major American airports.
Comment · 7 years ago
Wait, WHAT?
How are people going to use a DNA database to commit genocide?
How are these people going to be killed en masse? What would stop someone from using the same method without a DNA database?
This argument makes no sense...the thing stopping genocide now is not the inability to identify people based on their genetic characteristics.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sort of the way white people dismiss the problems of black people. Easily.
For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.h...
Comment · 7 years ago
Right, because the lack of DNA indexing stops cops from racial profiling now.
Cops already check your ID to see if you're related to any known criminal! Literally, this "nightmare scenario" you're envisioning happens every day in America. E.g.: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/28/nypd-gang-database-addit...
It's comical that you think this is some 1984 thing that will happen if we enable DNA indexing...the fact you don't know it already does happen shows just how far removed your experience is with police from those of black and Hispanic people in America.
If you're Arab flying into the country? Even worse.
If anything DNA indexing would allow innocent, unaffiliated people to not have to endure the indignity of what they currently go through.
Comment · 7 years ago
This will be an unpopular opinion but we should index the DNA of every citizen.
The two objections are 1) exposing genetic health info 2) foreign countries can identify our spies.
For #1, I have news for you: insurance companies already build risk profiles of you, DNA profiles are not going to tip the balance of your premiums against what they already know. This ship has sailed. (and TBH if they didn't insurance would likely be even more unaffordable and out-of-reach than it already is)
For #2, I can't say.
But think of the benefits: how many more crimes would be solved? How many LESS innocent people would go to prison for crimes they didn't commit?
Plastic straws, browsing history and DNA indexing are white people problems, IMHO. Look at what it's like to be black in America in 2019: Botham Jean was sitting in his own apartment, eating ice cream, watching a ball game when a white off-duty Dallas police officer broke in and murdered him for no reason.
She'll be out of prison in 5 years.
The rise of body cams has the last 10 years has shown these types of incidents happen more frequently than we ever wanted to admit.
How many people are hurt in real life by things like DNA indexing? Please. It must be nice to be so rich to worry about frivolous non-problems like these. A national DNA index could keep a lot of innocent (mostly minority) people out of prison but oh no god forbid a white person be revealed to have a genetic marker for Alzheimers and their insurance premiums go up. The horror.
Comment · 7 years ago
LOL OK. If anything this kind of frivolous, nonsensical argument you're proffering here undermines the rights of the LGBTQ community, allowing conservatives to easily dismiss their actual meaningful concerns as liberal hogwash.
So, please, keep setting back the cause of minorities and those discriminated against by making pronouns the hill on which to die on.
Way to fight for the oppressed! If we had 10,000x of you maybe all rights for the discriminated would be repealed, no?
The experience is more akin to being in a massive company with tons of middle managers who are always looking to self-promote and cover their a.
The army has many great men and women in it, despite the bs, but let's not pretend it's some "dynamic" entity.
Don't believe me? Read Bob Gates' memoir, where he recounts how as SecDef he had to fight the Pentagon brass just to get MRAPs that would save lives. And he was in charge of the department!