DNA Mapping - Pro's & Con's
23andme.com is offering a complete DNA report for $199. They send you a kit (I believe, it's a simple container which you spit in and send the sample back to them for analysis) and then send you your complete DNA map including predisposition to various diseases etc. The Terms of Service on the company web-site list some of the risk of using the service that include your DNA data getting into the wrong hands and used against you etc. It also speaks about unpredictability of one's personal reaction to "knowing".
I am thinking about it. I am also thinking about how it could change one's life for better and/or for worse. In Greek mythology, a very popular theme was about someone finding about a future cause of their death from a God or an oracle and then unsuccessfully trying all their life to avoid this cause, yet dying exactly from it in the end.
Would you do it? Why not? Why yes?
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