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Originally Posted by Creator  Well then our genetic codes would have to be on our ID cards for "real" genetic discrimination to happen right? I watched GATTACA again... and did some thinking... Our genetic data would have to be exposed so often like in our ID cards in the form of barcodes then...... well I am outta words to say.
But then why would a govt do something like this to its people?? |
Have you forgotten your recent history? Ethnic cleansing? Concentration camps?
Death camps? Hell, yes, they would, under the right circumstances --
any government has the potential to do so. This is a lesson history teaches again and again... especially if things get rocky, and you need a scapegoat....
And no, you wouldn't need it to be on your ID cards... "sharing" programs that are in a gray zone (after all, it's to improve the economy!); hackers, illegal as they may be, can still sell that sort of information on the black market and, in places where it's an "at will" proposition (as with many states here), an employer can fire you without giving any particular reason -- and if they feel you're of a group that's a risk economically.... Let's face it, hackers have got into government computers before, and will do so again. How much information they'll get is problematic. Perhaps all they'll end up with is gobbledygook; but then I'm minded of a recent little fiasco here where tons of personal information got lifted from the government, and they're still scrabbling to clean up
that mess....
As noted, the information itself is by no means a bad thing... but we human beings have a very nasty tendency -- at least,
en masse, as in countries -- to turn any advance in knowledge into at least a
potential weapon against others of our species... even if they are "our own".....