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What if DNA test kits were sold over the counter?
Science is the elephant in the room. It has been growing in leaps and bounds and there is no stopping it.
It regenerates, and mutates, like a radioactive element or a bad virus leaving everyone aghast.
We can longer keep tabs on new scientific developments – we can without effort test almost anything – pregnancy, blood, hormonal levels, sugar levels, and all.
The other day, when I felt that I was losing weight and heading to the grave, I asked my doctors to take tests of all medical parameters.
After 50 years, I am not bothered if they say that I am dying the next month. The horror of being told that you are a walking dead can be bothersome.
What I am trying to say is that today, more than ever before, it is easy to know your health status. It is easy to know information that you would have not otherwise known had you been living in the last 30 years.
Now, since you can walk into a chemist shop and buy without a fuss an easy-to-do pregnancy, blood sugar, HIV, and other tests, what would happen if it was that easy to have DIY DNA tests? I think that would be an apocalypse – the end of marriage institution and family tree.
Imagine, just imagine that the boy you showered with love is not a child of your belly – a DNA test has proved that the boy you cherished is actually not the child of your loins!
As a man, you are most likely to kill someone for betrayal but since there are laws of the land that your accuser in a criminal case happens to be the state, you will be reasonable enough not to cross the line of crime and find yourself rotting in Segerea Prison.
Many are times when men have nurtured, and fed children who are not theirs. The government has installed laws and Kilimanjaro-size hurdles when a man seeks DNA validation. This is not without a reason.
Supposing it was easy to take an over-the-counter DNA test? The results would be disastrous. Imagine that you have come to the realisation that some of the children in your household – some of whom you have valued and held dearly as your own children, motored them and incurred so much in school fees, upkeep, and so forth.
It ills a man. Let us live and let others leave without enquiring.
Have a faithful weekend. Won't you?
