[Skybird]

Usually one would think it is reasonable, but a genetic sample, different to a fingerprint, gives full information on your future risk for health problems, and thus databases containing such information are naturally a very inviting target for insurrance companies, employers, etc. The abue is possible, and one way or the other it will become reality, you can be sure. How many data scandals have we had in Britain and Germany in the past 12 months alone? Quite some.

It is really a two-edged sword, and corproations have far more power these days then they are legitimised to have in your community models. Just some days ago I saw a 1 hour docu on the pharmceutical industry preventing the release of internally known ultra-potent drugs and medications, becasue then the pool of sick people would become so small that their profits would be shrinking in the medium and long run. They want the population to be sick, and they keep it sick.

In a society where this kind of lobbyism, and many other exmaples, are not only possible but alrerady is reality, one has no reason to be enthusiastic about creating even more open holes private business can abuse for its own interest. Foul play has always been present in the past, but never before where cheater in posession of such enormous powers like today, and never before the consequences of cheating are so far-leading and decisive even for the planet's fate.