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Originally Posted by Willravel
Rat, that's the same argument made for all privacy issues. "Sure, you can search my car! I have nothing to hide" are probably the famous last words of a lot of people. It's why we have the Fifth Amendment.
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No, it's different from that. The moment I'm charged with something I didn't commit, it becomes different from that. Because the DNA can be entirely exculpatory--it's not just "I have nothing to hide," it's "I can prove I didn't do that thing."
Don't stand on principles here--if you were arrested on suspicion of a murder, wouldn't you want to provide every piece of evidence you could in your defense?
Also, there's really no such thing as a DNA partial match. Fingerprints can be partial, but DNA's either a match or it's not. They could ask you if a close relative was in Florida 15 years ago, but the DNA is either yours or it's not.