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Im most disturbed by the possibility that profiling of a newborn or child could identify variation(s) that society uses to limit the life or happiness of 'unfits'. In Stephen J Gould's essay, "Carrie Buck's Daughter", he examines the infamous Supreme Court case of Buck vs Bell 1927 that forced the sterilization of tens of thousands of mentally "enfeebled" people in the US over the subsequent decades. I worry that our capacity to discriminate between individuals is vastly out pacing the collective intelligence of the institutions created to safe guard our liberty.

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Is that the issue under discussion? This post is about figuring out somebody's genetic information from research datasets, not about learning how to profile people.

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