It is NOT an issue of whether or not a national DNA database of all persons would help fight crime. I do not doubt that it would. The problem is, as anyone who has been around the block a few times knows from hard experience, that such fine intentions (especially when espoused by governmental entities) contain the seeds of bitter, unintended consequences. The proposal widens the powers of governments to abuse citizens outside the due process of law. Any policy which increases the power of a government to do that is anathema and should be shunned in the interests of humanity.


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