You understand the reasonable ground of "burning it down" others dont. Id prefer better goal formulation with less demagogy.

But there is a certain race to the bottom with no exit. Consider the ease with which DNA may be collected. What prevents China from the mass collection of DNA of Americans? Would that knowledge asymmetry place the US at a disadvantage if, say, the US were to become the target of some kind of biological warfare? A disadvantage in the sense of lacking the knowledge needed to protect the populace. Could a repository of anonymized genetic data be constructed, or would it be too easy to infer whose DNA is whose? Are the threats too remote to justify such collection, even if legally endorsed?