[ExI] dna ethics question

[Tara Maya]

Personally, I think that as a matter of course, all babies' DNA should be checked against the DNA of their parents to confirm paternity and maternity.

For maternity, it would merely help prevent rare "switched at birth" scenarios, but eliminating paternity uncertainty would be a dramatic shift in the evolution of mammals. That alone would do more for women's rights and Nice Guys than centuries of lectures about the evils of premarital sex or adultery. Basically every society's oppression of women, every religious hang up about sex, and probably even rape, all derive from paternity uncertainty.

Tara Maya
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On May 5, 2014, at 10:25 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whoever is trying to maintain privacy in the 21st century is fighting a losing battle.  Eventually all DNA will be obtained at the hospital where you were born (my prediction, anyhow).  I think this is a case of only criminals could object to use of DNA to find them/convict them.

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