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by ttobbaybbob 2424 days ago
Such a database would certainly have been valuable to anyone who ever wanted to commit genocide.

It's easy to see the short-term, first-order positive results. However the power to abuse such information is basically unlimited.

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Wait, WHAT?

How are people going to use a DNA database to commit genocide?

How are these people going to be killed en masse? What would stop someone from using the same method without a DNA database?

This argument makes no sense...the thing stopping genocide now is not the inability to identify people based on their genetic characteristics.