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Getting placed at the scene of a crime applies to everyone.

Remember that once you do it, it’s out there forever. So you can’t just rely on “I haven’t and won’t break any laws that exist in my country right now”.

Having certain characteristics that show up in your test could be illegal in 20 years time. You don’t know.

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That's an interesting point, but if your government becomes blatantly oppressive they don't need DNA to do it.

The resistance movement in Norway, during WWii, targeted and blew up the citizen registry, because it was used for evil. Any database we build now could be used like that. Now they are easily copied, so we won't be able to blow them up when it's already too late--we must avoid building them.

Do you think it was a mistake for countries to continue compiling databases of citizens after WWII? Census? Phone books? These are all mistakes?

No but the DNA database helps them track you down.

Sure. They might outlaw brown hair, too. They might outlaw last names with vowels. That hypothetical, imaginary risk doesn't make it sensible to dye your hair and change your name.

Tell the 6 million Jews, hundreds of thousands to million+ Romanis, and hundreds of thousands of disabled who were systematically exterminated by gassing, shootings, starvation and various other means that being outlawed is a "hypothetical risk". Even beyond WW2 to say what you said is so incredibly against any form of historical understanding that one must start to wonder what your motive with it is.

Your motive appears to be to troll from a position of ignorance. No, DNA tests do not cause holocausts.

More to the point, the government can just collect your DNA itself if it wants to.

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