crime prevention.
I am thinking of writing a discursive essay on this and wondered what people thought.
Why do you hold your particular view on it?
2007-12-13 07:55:08 · 28 answers · asked by Darlingthatsfabulous 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yeah, as others have said, it would be an etreme violation of privacy. I don't want anybody to have anyway to track me. Not that I do bad things, but I may want my right to. How would what you're stating be any different than installing locator chips in us all? You gotta see how bad that would be. No one government should ever hold so much control over their people...
Have you ever seen the movie "minority repor"t? I know a little lame to use a movie as an example, sorry. But in that movie they have something called pre-crime. They call tell when a murder is about to happen and stop it before anybody doing the killing actually has done anything, and he gets taken away like for life. He didn't do anything, but was about to, is that right?
2007-12-13 08:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by syriusdaven 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Many peoples DNA has been put on record anyway. The worrying thing is that DNA testing is not 100% infallable. How would you feel about being convicted of a crime on DNA evidence if you were innocent? Many people are ignorant of the science involved and the tendency is to believe that because its DNA, its 'science' and therefore completely reliable. It isn't. If everyone understood this then a DNA database would be useless anyway as it couldn't provide evidence beyond reasonable doubt.
2007-12-13 08:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In some circumstance yes its good but for my child no, he was arrested and later found not guilty and yet the government still keep his dna, Tony Blair is going to get his dna splattered all over his world once im on me feet, my child did not deserve this considering a disfunctionall family made the nasty atack on him but now he is another specemin in the govs cabinet its a scandle............
Also, look at the Jill Dando girl, the person accused was in possetion of a micro piece of spent powder, imagen if police discovered 10 pieces of micro dna from skin cells in a different case the person would be f***ed eventhough that person may have just shared a newspaper or touched the same door handle etc, also DNA is NOT unique to 1 person it can be shared by many....
If it helps you to know Dave Bright (Southend) was the first copper to use DNA to convict in the UK
2007-12-13 08:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sure, yet no longer human beings..if u get what i advise. THe national DNA database is a sturdy thought, yet leavin that variety of power in mans palms isn't. IF there grew to become right into a robotic, mayb they wud do a greater valuable job. This international is crooked no count what way u seem at it so it dosent count what u attempt, ur nonetheless guna get double crossed via the government. U understand they have camereas observing you everywhere u circulate? even in public washrooms. i might circulate to a secluded island if i ever lived interior the states...OH CANADA!!!
2016-11-26 20:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by leacock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is only my opinion, which maybe right or maybe wrong to other people's point-of-view.
Since I am a conservative, martial, and uptight, I believe so that a DNA database will help crime prevention and solution rise to 500%. Although the speed of finding suspects and criminals may be fast, it might also backfire that the DNA of an innocent might be mixed up within the crime scene and be blamed for it.
Liberals, little miss free-spirited people, and hippies would be against DNA database, they will certainly complain about violation of privacy and free will.
2007-12-13 08:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by Vince M 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
NO!
I think it's terrible that you can't even commit an honest crime and go to another state, change your name, hide and get away with it.
Disgraceful.
No, seriously, the government shouldn't start watching me before I even commit a crime.
In a way, it would help, but i think it is an invasion of privacy, and I just really don't want them to have too much information on me, without ever doing anythin.
The government is already too controlling, and we shouldn't let it get worse than it is.
AND with identity theft, i think we should be making it HARDER to find that information, not EASIER, but collecting all that info alltogethe in one place.
2007-12-13 08:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by abbbijo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is easy to think of such a thing in terms of your intended use, but once information has been collected it is nearly never only used for the original purpose of collection.
Who owns the information once it is collected? Who owns the information about you that is already in databases around the world? You don't own pictures of you, your social security number, your physical dimensions, or logs of your shopping habits that are circulating around the world in databases. Once they have your information, you are nearly powerless to protect yourself from its misuse.
Scientists would quickly announce their need to know. They would gain access to the database for 'purposes of fighting disease'. People would vote them the authority to do it. Of course they would at the same time be developing new marketing strategies based on intimate knowledge of your DNA. You need drug X because you have gene a23552... You need tennis shoe Y because you have gene dk235609...
Your DNA information would make its way out into the private sector. When you get into a fender bender on the road, the person who hit you can show in court that you have gene zb23452 that a study once claimed might indicate you are easily distracted. The truth of what happened would be second best to the latest scientific speculation claimed to be fact in a journal.
Children could be routed into specific schools due to somebody's genetic analysis that predicts their intelligence (or other factor) as defined by some nut job social program dictated by a politician. You might think this would never happen, but similar things have happened. Pleanty of idiots have forced black school kids in poor neighborhoods to waste hours (of potential homework time) being bussed to opposite ends of the cities they lived in rather than improve the education being given at the school a block from their home. The quality of education you receive is what counts, not the percentage of students that fall into one category or another. Damage that has been done based on the color of a childs skin could easily be done based on some genetic sequence.
2007-12-13 08:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by Automation Wizard 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think there should be. A woman called Sara Cameron was murdered near where i live. The police had her killers dna but no one to match it with. He was caught four years later by chance at the other end of the county when he was dna'd for something and it matched.
All the meantime he was wandering around free to kill other people. He coulc have been arrested the same day if his dna was already in the database.
2007-12-13 07:58:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No... there is a more effective way to go in a democratic society. Most Americans are not criminals. Education is the key to stopping crime, gangs, drug abuse and violence. Some parents neglect to teach children how to discover inner power. (We offer workshops for ministers and rabbis of all faiths.) America is paying a high price as we build more prisons, (2 million citizens) fund more programs and struggle to keep schools safe. For more information, check out website below and look for - "Religious Leaders."
2007-12-15 10:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by Stephanie Mann 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not, but If we keep electing Neo-cons to office, it will be an inevitibility. I was in Russia during it's communist days, and i have studied countries like Afghanistan, North Korea, Iraq, and China, and can tell you that Totalitarian countries justify their ways in order to provide "security" but always abuse the privelige, and end up so paranoid that they view their own populace as the enemy. (ie: illegal wiretapping). Try reading Orwells 1984 or watching Tom Cruise's Minority Report.
2007-12-13 08:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by Jim T 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋