• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    Why are we even talking about Hitler’s DNA? Out of all the news why this. We are seriously weird.

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      Researchers sequenced his DNA recently from a bloodstained couch cushion, we’ve been getting glimpses into it lately.

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        Presumably the insights are just that he was a human and not a space alien.

        What are they looking for exactly?

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            That sounds the kdrama Mouse where they find the serial killer gene, but just because you had it doesn’t mean you’d become one. Sounds like a terrible future and another layer of future discrimination for things beyond people’s control that might just be a carrier.

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        Also he’s dead, why do dead people deserve anything, any rights? What harm happens to Hitler? He’s dead. Did we ask dinosaurs to look at their DNA, for all we know they were sentient? The whole argument is stupid.

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          When there is a crime scene, the place is searched for fingerprints, hair, fabrics, anything that could find the suspect. No “privacy” is given, because it’s a fucking crime scene. Hitler murdered people, that’s a crime scene. He forfeited any right to privacy when he forfeited his humanity.

          The whole post is ridiculous.

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        Just a weird topic especially with all this neo-nazism happening in the US government.

        I am not saying it isn’t newsworthy at all of course. It is just the timing is suspect.