Crime & Punishment

[bronchitikat]

All Your Bases Are Known By Us

A Senior Judge has suggested that the National Database of DNA be upgraded to include the DNA of everyone in the country.  This could be another of those things which generally gets the High Court, & Judges in particular, into disrepute.   Not sure whether this is a 'personal freedom' issue or what.  Just not keen

Comments

[annelaure]

I'm against this idea. I think that a lot of people have a "valid" reason to want their privacy respected.

[bronchitikat]

Me too.

Trouble is that these days the old thing about a person being innocent until proven guilty isn't what it used to be. The tendency is to regard everyone as guilty of something & only the evidence to be lacking - isn't that the basis of the French system? ;)

Of course, it isn't helped by there being a lot more people around prepared to commit petty crime, at least, & who just don't seem to have that much (if any) concept of Right & Wrong. Hah! First they said that God was irrelevant . . .

[annelaure]

no no no, our policy is "you're guilty, no matter what" !

Besides the concept of right or wrong, I'm thinking about possible mistakes (people who donate organ can alter the dna code of the receiver), and people who donate sperm for example, and remain anonymous. Or at least try.