Would you have a microchip implanted under your skin if concrete benefits were derived from it?

The Bible has something to say about the mark of the beast. This sounds like that make to me.
Allen

I’m a bit curious. What does this and most of the questions of the week for that matter, have to do with NASA?

How about asking if NASA should apply resources to developing alternative forms of energy or improving upon those that already exist???

“Mark of the Beast?” That’s crazy talk. So is this bizarre frenzy of telling the world everything about you via social networking. In the question at hand, I would not want my personal aspects available to marketers to make shopping better targetted, and the card in my wallet or bracelet on my wrist will tell paramedics exactly what they need to know. That an embedded chip is vulnerable to unauthorized reading, copying or other misuse is a given. There can be no rational reason for a person to do this.

I would definitely consider it if I was getting Alzheimer’s or a similar problem or perhaps even for my children. It depends on the benefit and whether I trusted what the chip was doing and not doing.

I’d only put the chip in my seeing eye dog.

I fail to see what possible benefit I would get from an embedded chip that I could not get from an external device. With the external device, I have the choice to turn it off, or leave it at home.

This is the reality of what the consiparcy theorists call the “New World Order”. It can lead to governmental monitoring, control and misuse. I do think it can be used for parolees and sex offenders.

It is unnecessarily invasive. If a person wants to be found, they can wear anklet, bracelet, or other jewelry that contains the microchip. Cell phones are bad enough. Everyone needs to get off the grid on occasion and under skin tracking devices would prohibit that. Sometimes, I just don’t want to be found.

I carry a phone and use credit cards, so Big Brother already knows where I am. If the chip would replace all the ID paper and plastic in my wallet, I’m all for it.

I’d say Allen is probably closer to being right on the money than anyone. While the world is blinded to this quickly approaching fact, those of us who believe God’s Word can certainly see where all this human inventory technology is heading.

Although they are already putting chips in pets for location/ID, putting them in humans has much more grave implications in terms of identity theft.

Benefits were promised to the Jewish people with an older technology back in the 40’s.
Crazy Lee in Allen’s boat…

Oh sure, I need an implanted microchip to be an efficient shopper. And it would be such a great aid to paramedics after I’ve collapsed from a heart attack. Like they can’t figure that out in 10 seconds. How silly of me to think otherwise.

Since this poll was conducted in Germany and I had lived in Germany nine years, I feel we are not talking apples to apples on this subject. Germany has privacy laws that are actually enforced (US not so much). Germans have a ‘tracking’ system already in place for decades ( the An/Abmeldeamt), a form that each German citizen must fill out each time they change address. They must also carry an picture identification card on their person wherever they go.It is only logical they will not object too strongly to have this chip implanted.

I see no benefits, only possible/probable abuse.

But then, I’m one of those crazy people that is only going to give the census takers exactly what the Constitution allows; the number of people living at my address.

Seeing the trend of human nature in government, today’s “concrete benefits” could easily turn into tomorrow’s worst nightmare of losing not only our privacy but our freedom. True freedom means limiting government surveillance and control of our lives. Though the chip implant is very logical, it is only for those who can’t see the future and have not read history, let alone prophecy.

Despite the potential abuses, it would be useless during the next epoch, the New Dark Age, to arrive after the ruling class drops the ball (again) on the implementation of sustainable energy technologies.

NO! There is no “benefit” worth surrendering any of my freedoms, liberties or unalienable rights - and that includes my right to privacy from Fedzilla. And that’s exactly where this “benefit” will lead us.

Nothing is getting planted in THIS body until it’s six feet UNDER concrete.

I would be concerned about having my personal data “read” by devices as I walked around, and then having that data stolen and used for identity theft etc. Someone would figure out how to duplicate the chip and then put it in their pocket to become “me” and commit crimes, steal funds, or clean out my accounts.

Talk about “invasion of Privacy” from last weeks question and then this one, Gee it’s like we’re “lemmings” and it brings memories of a movie I saw when I was like 8 (Logans Run). Maybe not similar to this question, but that society is like what we’re heading for if stuff like this beomes common practice. Come on what use is this? The marketers and stuff point to the good and “Ease” of use, how “convenient” it would be to do this or that, but on the flip side… Government or others could track you or who knows what else could be put into those things to do stuff to your body. Pacemakers are implantable, certain devices are implanted now and give off insulin to diabetics. Wouldn’t it make sense to “Add” those “Features” into the next generation of chips “just in case” you became a diabetic or had heart disease.
What’s next?

Yes;especially if offerred medical or security benifits. Sort of like having my cell phone gps implanted so I or it can never be lost! lol

No free country needs to inventory their citizens.

New York State records show that over 36% of the Upstate population has moved out over the span of 30 years. However, the government has conversely grown rapidly during that period. This was done, while the state leadership knew the services which were being expanded were actually needed less. Today, New York is in a budget disaster. What good did the state population reduction statistics do…….nothing, No one in governemnt is motivated to care about it. That’s why spending government money on this technology is like burning tax money that should never have been collected in the first place. Keep your money, vote against governemnt programs, they’re all waste.

By being given the choice to have it implanted, it would be inherently non-obligatory, and therefore removeable by request, right? I’m okay by that reassurance that the ‘concrete benefits’ would be worthwhile, because if they’re not being realized, then let the implant be removed.

Sorry I got excited while I was on my soapbox and didn’t see I was “required” to put my name an address down. I’m the one who mentioned “Logans Run”
I wasn’t trying to hide behind “Anonymous”
Hmm wonder if I can have my name legally changed to that?

While I do not advocate getting “chipped” and at the present time would not have one implanted I do see some benefits. There are many privacy concerns. Presently passports or the “passport cards” carry an rfid chip. I you leave or enter the country you will be tracked. These chips have a range of at least several yards (probably longer). Presently the implanted chips only have a very short range usually no more than a foot so tracking someone with those chips is not very practical (those in credit cards and many other uses also have a short range). Some of the advantages of being chipped include reduction of medical errors in hospitals, reduction of the need to carry identification, reduction of false identification.

Generally no. It excites the paranoia within me. The mark of the beast, big brother and all that. But it would depend on what COULD be done with the chip. I have nothing to hide but I don’t like the thought of someone passing a reader over me and knowing everything about me (or being able to track me in any way). It’s invasive. If however a diabetic could get a glucose level without sticking, that might have some value. I would definitely not want a credit card chip.

The idea that some benefits can be derived from microchips embedded in humans is smoke and mirrors to disguise the real intent. Sorry “big brother”… from the looks of the majority of the responses here, the American public hasn’t drank enough Kool-Aid to be tricked into this one just yet.

The concrete benefits would have to vastly outweigh the potential for abuse. I can’t really think of a benefit that would fit that. All of the benefits ascribed to implanted chips can be accomplished without the implant with far less risks of government and marketeering abuse.

I haven’t even put a chip in my DOG. I certainly shall not have one implanted in my tired, old body.

Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

The questions seem to be getting curiouser, and curiouser. From the comments, thankfully, it appears that the “sheepeople” reading this column are in theh strong minority. Maybe there’s real hope for the nation after all. No way would a chip be put under this skin, alleged “benefits” or not. I guess they wouldn’t have to “ask you for your papers”.

No. Even if I had full trust in the people in charge at the time you never know who will be in charge in the future and what they might do.

Sounds like 1984 and Winston Smith… Mark of the beast, perhaps. Regardless, the answer is NO!

The only thing getting under THIS skin is the liberally biased direction the Question Of The Week seems to take frequently.

Cecil has the right idea. That is why we have a Constitution, in fact, but it cannot enforce itself, unfortunately.

I am amazed and disappointed that a sizeable minority answered yes or would even accept the chip only under well defined circumstances with well defined restrictions - evidence that a growing number of Americans have a terribly poor understanding of liberty and how easily it can be lost by a society who takes it for granted.

The Founders understood that self-government would perish if the only qualifications necessary to vote were residence and achieving some age in years. That is why it was left to the States to determine the minimum requirements, that the State was the best judge of the type of citizen best qualified to vote wisely. But today, wards of the State and heathens miseducated by government schools dilute our polity; we fast approach the day that we can no longer govern ourselves. That a sizeable minority of Americans would take an implanted chip is sure evidence of this.

Once the microchips are implanted you will all be under my control!

Mwaaaa–ha–ha–haaaaaaaaa!

No. Absolutely not. It would be an invasion of my personal Freedom. Freedom is my religion. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution, and the Arizona State Constitution make up my bible.

Not while I’m alive. It is no one’s business (least of all the All-Powerful Oz in D.C.) but my own where I go, what I do, what I read, what I say….our Founding Fathers did not sacrifice their lives, riches, and sacred honor to allow such foolishness (as microchips, GPS tracking beacons, RF bracelets, etc.) that has emerged as a result of our endless lust for gadgets. Except for tracking grizzly bears, alligators, and unincarcerated criminals, such things are not tolerable in a free society. The very suggestion of it reveals a simple-minded sheep mentality where the subjects of a central State clamor to be mothered by that government, since they’re too lazy or stupid to face the harsh realities of self-determination on their own. Last I checked, our Constitution was still in force, despite incongruous misinterpretations of it…and I will live and die by the freedoms it guarantees. God bless our pitiful land, and may He forgive the idiots that try to improve upon His creation.

The key to my answering yes is the phraseing of the question “…if concrete benefits could be derived…” I would weigh the value of those benefits to me againist the poential negatives to me and decide at that time. This is an evolving technology and how it will be used is still evolving, much like 2way radios, pagers, mobilephones and crackberrys- how it evolves will determine whether I and others will use it.
Think back (if you can like me) to when you were first asked to carry a walkie, or pager & have a phone installed in your car and to how your cellphone has now become almost an extension of your body.
Most people can’t live without them and some have withdrawl issues if they loose them.

Great for dog and slaves > there masters can always find them!! So could smart bombs!
Even the question is scary!

In a free society, one is allowed to ask any question … even really, really stupid ones. This question is beyond really, really stupid. However, considering the many things we have already given up (I’m not sure how, because I did not vote on ANY of it), the asking of this question is scary. In the name of “public safety” we must wear a seat belt, wear a helmet on motorcycles and bicycles, can not smoke anywhere in public; we, the general majority populous, can not voice our opinion about specifiic groups of people because it is racist, sexist, or otherwise “politically incorrect”, however many specific groups can say what they want without consequence… I’m not sure why … it seems very “double standard-ish”.

I do still have the right to free speech. Even if my opinions are somewhat offensive to someone else, I still have the RIGHT to that opinion. Otherwise, we reach the point that no one can say anything about any one or it could be offensive … that is the ABSENCE of free speech … similar to the communist approach the the Cold War Eastern Bloc nations … if you speak or do something “in contrast” to government dictates, you can be jailed.

I will say it again … When did we give up the right to be wrong? When did we give up the right to have a contrasting opinion? When did we give up the right to bake “bad decisions and choices”?

I regularly (ad nauseam) spout this, but I see it as the fundamental root to the “big brother” encroachment … LET ME CHOSE, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT SMART CHOICES!

To the 34 voters who have thus far rendered a “yes” vote, the friendly folks in DC have some refreshing KoolAid for you.

Must be people from the forward-thinking, cosmopolitan communities of San Fran, LA, and New Yuck….can’t think of any other bastions of idiocy that would support such nonsense. Maybe they believe the Tooth Fairy will have any easier time finding their eager hands when it’s time for another welfare check to arrive? Move to Europe; you’ll all fit in so well there.

To the other 167 voters on the right side of the matter, great job! It’s always good to recognize calm, steadfast resolve in the face of blithering idiots.

I would not have a microchip implanted in my body nor would i get my self branded… this sort thing is for cattle not humans.