Originally posted by: Bossk
Difference being that they agreed to it as part of their rehabilitation, probation, etc. No one forced them to sign on the line saying that they had to do this. They could have gone to jail.
This guy who was cured of HIV has a choice as well. He can submit to more testing (and he's probably been through a ton already in his life) or he can just live. Thankfully, his choices are a bit better than the guy in your rehab center, but it's still a choice. You can't take that away from him. Or, at least, I hope you can't.
Originally posted by: JediSage
I work at an alcohol/drug rehabilitation center that has residential programs. One of the programs has men that are basically 1 step away from going back to jail. I believe that it's mandatory for them to give a DNA sample to department of corrections as part of their deal. IMO, that's Orwellian.
I work at an alcohol/drug rehabilitation center that has residential programs. One of the programs has men that are basically 1 step away from going back to jail. I believe that it's mandatory for them to give a DNA sample to department of corrections as part of their deal. IMO, that's Orwellian.
Difference being that they agreed to it as part of their rehabilitation, probation, etc. No one forced them to sign on the line saying that they had to do this. They could have gone to jail.
This guy who was cured of HIV has a choice as well. He can submit to more testing (and he's probably been through a ton already in his life) or he can just live. Thankfully, his choices are a bit better than the guy in your rehab center, but it's still a choice. You can't take that away from him. Or, at least, I hope you can't.
In our case, I believe it's Orwellian because the person has already been convicted and punished for their crime. With the DNA issue they're practially taking the presumption of innocence of FUTURE crimes and tossing it out the window. Yes, they have a choice, but if we make the exception of having DNA for "criminals", then it won't be long before we do it when dealing with foreigners and immigrants (to protect ourselves from terrorism, no doubt), followed by children (in the event they're kidnapped). Things like this, and the proliferance of surveillance cameras, mandatory internet wiretapping rules, etc are giving rise to a very scary world.