DNA Database is a Must-Have!
Published Jan 22, 2007 Deseret News: DNA is a miraculous modern-day fingerprint. Why aren’t we aggressively assembling a national or at least a state DNA database on the entire population? So many solvable cases go unresolved. So many rapists and murderers will strike again and again. Privacy issues can be addressed. Has common sense really fallen so far out of fashion?
There was once a civic-minded generation who gave us such a legacy of great civic achievements that we benefit from everyday. Have we as their children and grandchildren become so self-absorbed in our worship of the American Idol to ever do anything great again?
February 20th, 2007 at
DNA is not a modern fingerprint. It is much more. DNA has within it many details of a person. I don’t trust the goverment with so much information about everyone. you said : “So many rapists and murderers will strike again and again.” So?! Convected sex offenders and murders can go into the database but not the entire population.
February 21st, 2007 at
In a short letter it is impossible to convey your whole intent. First, the government already has more than enough information on all of us than even they know what to do with, simply by virtue of public records. I’m not sure what more they could get from DNA that they wouldn’t already have anyway. Please provide examples.
Second, I do trust the government enough to believe that they don’t have malicious intent - bumbling bureaucrats yes, but doubt they’re really going to clone anyone or do anything else of suspicious value without public knowledge. I think plenty of people would also volunteer and would get their kids in to do a DNA sample. So I agree with you, no need to require anyone but criminals, but to at least be more aggressive about a voluntary program would do more good than could ever materialize from the “sci-fi” harm of “government spies & social engineers”.
July 26th, 2007 at
Very interesting. Thanks for the post.