Re:China Uses DNA to Track Its People. It Got Help from the ...
by salawat on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:14PM
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>Repression is an opinion expressed in the op-ed that hasn't considered factors that are alien to the Western author's perspective.
It's a given in the sense you describe, but a rose, by any other name is still a rose.
I see no reason to not call it what it is on the tin, and this is exactly the danger that entrusting your genetic code to anyone presents. As a whole, our species is only as scrupled as the least scrupulous actor. Frankly, I'm not half as upset at China as I am the firms that have been compiling private databases of genetic material and then selling access to the data.
It's a given in the sense you describe, but a rose, by any other name is still a rose.
I see no reason to not call it what it is on the tin, and this is exactly the danger that entrusting your genetic code to anyone presents. As a whole, our species is only as scrupled as the least scrupulous actor. Frankly, I'm not half as upset at China as I am the firms that have been compiling private databases of genetic material and then selling access to the data.