Emergency ID

[Eden]

Yeah I saw that article about possible cancers from chipping - but the study sounded a bit thin, plus there is no evidence from all of the pets being chipped that there is any large incidence of tumors at the chipping sites.
Neverthelesss.... I certainly don't plan to run out and have myself microchipped at any time, it seems a bit intrusive to me.

(also the chips in your pet and the ones they are testing on humans, I believe, are passive so they aren't putting out RF signals unless they are being scanned. I think the incidence of tumors in the study may have been more related to the chip being a foreign body)

[bmccasland]

I've pit tagged fish, and they didn't seem to have issues. But fishies generally don't live to be 80. Same tags are used in pets - which helped bring down the cost for us fisheries biologists, we were down to one company that made the chips and scanners. Got to love the laws of supply and demand.

That said, I don't want to be micro-chipped. I think that tracking ability is too George Wellian for me.

Edit - we did put a chip in someone's butt tho - involved being bored in camp, bottom of the Grand Canyon, many moons ago. I believe alcohol was also involved. I think if you ran the tag he'd come up as a Humpbacked Chub (native fish of Arizona).

[smilingcat]

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That said, I don't want to be micro-chipped. I think that tracking ability is too George Wellian for me.
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I've been somewhat hesitant to say this because its tad too politcal and too sensitive but... against my better judgement here goes.

The thought of being tagged does not sit will with me.
The benefits are quite obvious so needs no explanation.

Detriment is not so obvious. The RFID can store not only your medical record, it can hold your religous affilation: Islam, Christian, Jew...
political affilation: democrat, republican, libertarian, socialist, communist...
sexual orientation: hetro, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, other...
criminal record and much much more.

The problem is not so much about the information but HOW CAN IT BE USED? AND WILL IT BE MIS-USED. You realize, Hitler used punch cards to sort and catogorize people when they were rounding up the Jews, not to mention homosexuals, and those who were considered potentially harmful to the Third Reich. They were all rounded up wih the help of the punch cards. Many young women were forcefully sterilized because the Third Reich considered them mentally unfit or too emotional.

Today it would be implanted RFID. No need for "Sir (Madam), may see your papers/document!"

So with that in mind, I would much prefer to decide when I get incinerated than when government decide its convenient to do so. Genocide will happen again. Its still going on strong in other parts of the world.

if its too offensive I will remove my post.
Smilingcat

[ChickWithBrains]

Not offensive, but I think there's a difference between voluntary storing of one's own medical information and a government-mandated individually-inaccessible/unchangeable tagging system.

No one, I think, is advocating the latter.