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cs_33

Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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Location: Castle School - South Gloucestershire

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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:18 am

rutc_s25 wrote:

I agree with cs_37 that everyone is acting irrationally. I think that people are veering away from the main points of this National Database, in terms of insurance and all that jazz. First of all, we are talking about DNA profiling not gene testing, the kind of information of whether an individual is predisposed to a particular disease would not be available on this database! Surely, a more important issue is that someone could get hold of DNA and use it in order to incriminate that individual for a crime they committed.

we arent thinking irrationally. it is an individuals choice as to whether we want our information on a data base or not, we each have our own reasons which are personal and cannot be labelled as irrational.

the data baout predipositions to diseases may not be readily available on the data base, but surely the fact that a version of our DNA is available will eventually lead to this. we are a curious race and therefore will not be able to leave it at a finger print.

cs_41

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Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:27 am

I believe that DNA fingerprinting is far from an invasion of our privacy. DNA is a thing that the vast majority of the country have either never thought about or do not understand, therefore they have no arguement that the government are invading thier privacy. As well as this, the government cannot use ones DNA to find out any information about the inidividual that is not genetic, so people cannot argue that DNA finger printing is an invasion of our privacy (they cannot learn anything about the lives we lead or our personalities from our DNA). Even though i belive this, the concept of DNA finger printing is not practical; it is far too expensive, therefore it will not be put into practice in the near future. Gordon and his merry men will only loose the information anyway.

cs_37

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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:43 pm

cs_33 wrote:

we are a curious race and therefore will not be able to leave it at a finger print.

If it's so inevitable that we'll take it further, surely it's inevitable we'll go ahead and do it in the first place?

Of course, it's not - hence this debate. Yes, we're curious, but we're also able to regulate ourselves if something is too crazy. If we, as a society, generally agree a DNA database is a bad thing, we won't have one. If we agree it is a good thing, and then we agree something even bigger than that is not so good, we won't take it further.

The things that this may lead to in the future are a separate discussion entirely, and aren't a logical reason to stop it entirely.

cs_41 wrote:

As well as this, the government cannot use ones DNA to find out any information about the inidividual that is not genetic

They can't use a DNA fingerprint to find out anything that is genetic, either. It stores no information about your actual DNA sequence, it's simply a pattern that is formed that's unique to your DNA.

rutc_s18

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