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by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 10:17:45 AM EST

Right now these folks are attempting to say they know they exist.

No one knows anything is my point.

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by jerry on Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 02:40:16 PM EST

might play....
As an attorney and not a biologist, you could take a leading role in advocating for strong privacy laws, and laws that protect citizens and consumers from "redlining" due to genetic information.
As a software engineer, I can probably help make that technically possible, and I can explain the issues, but in a sense, I do think we need "our progressive liberal attorneys" to help make this the case regardless of what the genetic information is revealing - height, propensity to obesity, vulnerability to various diseases, sexual orientation, or even markers of intelligence.
If folks are willing to stop at saying "no it's not true let's not discuss it" then we might not be able to put the genie back into the bottle. (As an example, a relatively young and privileged Katherine Mangu-Ward, editor at Reason and libertarian, was wrote last January, that there was no such thing as privacy, and that government surveillance cameras should be embraced! A very interesting libertarian point of view. On NPR, one of her examples was quite literally: suppose they had gov't cameras outside of gay bars, everyone would still go in!)

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White Man's Burden | 12 comments (12 topical)