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Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy. Apart from that, I'll absolutely own that I want to see them succeed; I believe in the likelihood that big-data analysis is a valuable tool in conquering the diseases that have been resistant to past methods of devising cures. I volunteered my DNA for this purpose (and none of the DNA that 23andme holds wasn't volunteered for this purpose).

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>Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy

If you seek an answer to that question, you don't have to venture very far from Google, who birthed this creation.

I don't seek an answer, because I believe the question is answered that 23andme is not tyrannical and doesn't disdain privacy. Neither does Google, for that matter, and I think many people agree with such an assessment (Gmail has nearly half a billion active users).

"Begs the question" means your argument presupposed the truth of this part of the statement instead of supporting it.

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