DNA

Q: Why are redneck murders so hard to solve?

I honestly don't know what the fuss is about (see this link). It seems obvious to me that we should have everyone's DNA on record so that in the event of a crime being unsolved the police can use this database to pinpoint (with some technical caveats of course) the guilty person.

I have many liberal and free-thinking views, but when it comes to law and order and crime I believe that the most important objective of society is to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. There are many philosophical and moral arguments about how we structure our laws and how society itself breeds criminals, but at the end of the day everyone knows wrong from right (and therefore knows what the law is, especially violent crime) that it's pure arrogance on the behalf of criminals to commit any sort of legal wrong.

The only argument I have heard against keeping innocent people's DNA on record is that it may be used for purposes for which it is not designed or authorised, but I would say that is a different issue and there should be legal, unbreakable rules governing the use of sensitive data like this which must make it impossible to use this data for anything else.

I would also be happy to hive the innocent DNA into a separate database so that it is only used for unsolved crimes and the guilty DNA is searched first (purely a technicality, but there has to be some sort of way to sell this better to the idiots in society who, perversely, have a vote).

In my opinion our DNA should be stored from birth. There are probably scientific benefits which we haven't seen yet to having this material available. In the future it will almost certainly be possible to clone a human from DNA samples. I believe that in the future our morals and sensibilities will change too which will allow us to consider cloning a dead relative for example. This may seem abhorrent now to some (not to me), but at some point this sort of thing will be quite normal. There are surely many other benefits from recreating sperm or eggs when infertility strikes prematurely to growing organs for transplant.

So why prevent our DNA from being on record? It seems that there are people who just want to hide from society. They're very happy to have the trappings of a modern, successful civilisation (bananas, TV, electricity etc), but they're not willing to pay the inevitable price for this: to be part of a society properly where everyone works together to prevent others from harming the group. People talk about Big Brother, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. As long as there are foolproof checks against data being used wrongly then what's wrong with having a Big Brother watching out for us all. Anything that prevents crime gets my vote.

A: The DNA is all the same and There are no dental record