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Same. Law enforcement already has plenty of tools to implement totalitarianism, should that be the goal of the political class. If we are in the dark universe where this eventually comes to pass, a DNA database is not going to make much of a difference in one way or another. On the other hand, in the world where we have good leaders, this tool offers a material delta in the finding and convicting of dangerous criminals.



> in the world where we have good leaders

This seems to be the faulty axiom in your logic.


It's not an axiom. It's a variable. It was meant to be parallel to the sentence, "If we are in the dark universe . . ."




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