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DNA should be taken from babies (to fight crime) by DesertRat662006-12-13 10:23:58
  I like the honesty by varikin2006-12-13 10:47:00
    Shouldn't even be up for discussion IMO by DesertRat662006-12-13 10:51:01
      *blinks* by subbywan2006-12-13 10:53:00
        How about by DesertRat662006-12-13 10:55:26
          They already ID you at birth. by subbywan2006-12-13 10:57:48
            Not always by DesertRat662006-12-13 10:59:38
              But it's still fairly common, even if not by subbywan2006-12-13 11:01:49
                Just because something has some benefits by DesertRat662006-12-13 11:19:28
                  But just because it *MAY* have bad by subbywan2006-12-13 11:21:47
                    But I see it as the reverse... by jdelphiki2006-12-13 12:06:38
                      No, it doesn't hinder us at all. by subbywan2006-12-13 12:12:44
                        At what cost? by jdelphiki2006-12-13 12:26:46
                          "a huge intrusion on the rights and freedoms"? by Khaar2006-12-13 12:33:47
                            I explained... by jdelphiki2006-12-13 13:22:15
                              so then you're not against them having it, by subbywan2006-12-13 13:28:05
                                I'm quite against them having it... by jdelphiki2006-12-13 13:38:30
                                That's your responsibility. by subbywan2006-12-13 13:40:08
                                If such abuses were overt... by jdelphiki2006-12-13 13:45:17
                                See, I have no problem with a DNA DB. by subbywan2006-12-13 13:47:39
                                On such a large scale process... by jdelphiki 2006-12-13 15:21:50
...the abuses could happen just about anywhere. At a local level or all the way to the top.

Think of guys like Richard Nixon ordering the burglarization of Democrats' Watergate offices or Hillary Clinton who seemed to order FBI records on leading Republicans in the Travelgate scandal. Who stops abuses like that once the system is in place? The voters can force them out of office, but again, why put such a risky system into place at all?

Also, even if the DNA system was used honestly, the precedent created by such a system opens the door for much more drastic measures. To me, the benefits from such a plan don't even come close to outweighing the risks...and the potential for abuse...in a system like that.
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                                I see it just the other way around. by subbywan2006-12-13 15:31:42

 

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