nomdeplume
6 Answers
Shootah
Best answer!
So long as it has its safeguards against it being abused. Unfortunately, there is a huge, but unseen or realized danger in giving government that much control over an individual. Look at our government and tell me it doesn't pander to the lobbyist of big companies. What makes you think they'd protect you against insurance companies genetically seeing what kind of risk you are as a policy holder? The government doesn't even do anything about these big companies getting your credit card numbers and automatically billing you for services you requested have stopped. Look at how many people are without a job, who now have credit card debt they can't pay off...and that debt is exempt from bankruptcy because the companies lobbied for it to be. Look at them...they can't even come together enough to put a comprehensive and meaningfull jobs bill together without acting like little kids having a tantrum. I certainly don't trust those people to have control of any more of my life than they already do.
Look at how very little the government does to protect you against false advertising. I could go on and on, and on...and I definitely don't want them to have the option of selling me out to some big company
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Tommyh
I would have grave concerns over the privacy issue.DNA sampling is voluntary.New born babies have no chance to refuse the taking of a sample.To many things happen to babies already that they have no say in. For instance:- nobody ever asked me if I wanted to be circumcised nobody ever asked me if I wanted to be baptised in a christian church.Regardless of how I may feel about these proceedures now I think I should have been given the right of refusal.I'm sorry bit I think it would be just another way for "BIG BROTHER" to look over our shoulder for the rest of our lives.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
zorro
pythonlover
tabber
Poppy3
No. Absolutely not see Tommy and zorro's answer for starters. Tabber has a point I think but usually hereditary diseases are known from the family history. Babies are also checked for certain things at birth if there is something amiss - i.e. differential diagnosis of cretinism is down's syndrome and it is a disaster if the correct diagnosis is not made as a cretin at birth very rarely seen nowadays, because of testing (lacking in thyroxine) can be treated if not results in severe mental and physical retardation.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
