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"Andrew" <andrewnospam@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:BOfS9.358199$ka.9576580@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
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> "Calgary Rob" <calgaryrobnospam@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:Sf6S9.232168$Qr.6564478@news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > "Dave" <dave128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:g9_R9.4562$Hs3.536822@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > > DNA evidence allows you to determine who committed a crime by using
> > evidence
> > > left behind at some crimes to help identify the participants. In order
> > that
> > > this is easier you want to establish a DNA fingerprint of the
populace.
> > > Please keep in mind that this will cost way more than 1 billion
dollars.
> >
> > Why would you say that?  Want to receive health care?  You must provide
a
> > sample.  In jail?  Provide a sample.  Want any government service?
> Provide
> > a sample.  Etc.
> \
> So now the populace must be blackmailed to recieve services that are
already
> guaranteed to citizens. Why not just tattoo a barcode on every Canadian's
> forehead?

Blackmailed?  We should be happy to provide a sample, unless you have
something to hide, like a rape or something.

>
> > > It could be misused in this way, many genetic predictors for disease
and
> > > other expensive health issues can be identified with DNA profiling.
> > > Insurance companies would love to be able to get this information and
> use
> > it
> > > to determine their risk in covering you. Laws have already been
drafted
> to
> > > prevent this, I'm pretty sure they have not reached the point of
> > > consideration for law.
> >
> > And since when should someone else be responsible for your health?
>
> Since the Canadian government made health care equally accessible for all
> people.

That makes the government responsible for providing health care, that is for
sure.  However, I was clearly talking about the insurance companies.  Read
it again, but read the quote from Dave.

>
> > Another boo hoo whiner who is ready to send someone to die in another
> > country, yet cannot put up with 'an invasion of privacy' to protect
their
> > own neighbors.
>
> Your right to privacy is your most valuable right. Many other rights fall
> under this category. What you propose would turn Canadian citizens into
> government property. Sure we may be safer, but at such a huge cost.

Why is that my most valuable right?  Seems like rhetoric to me.  I would
gladly provide a sample, as have several communities in the past few years
in order to expose a criminal.  I have no problem with that, and support
increased moves to the area of providing genetic samples into a database in
order to prevent crime.  As well, I am also into more research into the
subject so a better formulated opinion could be made.



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