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Originally Posted by Loz
I can see where you are coming from and yes it could be exploited but like you said you came up with a rather extreme example,that is never going to happen,give me a more realistic example of how it could be exploited,not pie in the sky ideas.
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The best example I can think of is drug prohibition, which is controversial at best so won't illustrate this is well as the examples I gave above. There's plenty of people around who take cannabis who pose no threat whatsoever to society but with a DNA database might end up in prison, filling cells that we genuinely cannot afford. There's a strong argument for declassifying cannabis and whatever your stance on it, locking people up for smoking it doesn't really help anyone.
The reason it might be worth heeding more extreme arguments is that once we accept a DNA database then it will take far more activism to remove it from law than to put it in, especially once the larger abuses start cropping up, and they might only come 100 years down the line. And if the last century has taught us anything, it's that ALOT can happen in 100 years.