The most precious things in our lives are our children.
Why, then, in an age where we can use an implanted “chip” to find our lost pets, do we not have a method of placing a locator “chip” in our children?
Perhaps, if a physically-safe, chip-implant program could be devised, parents might be given the opportunity to allow their children to participate. Perhaps, even adults might want to participate.
What a wonderful world it would be if there were no more missing children and no more missing adults.
A simple GPS system might be implemented to locate any missing individual. Might not the sacrifice of a bit of our privacy liberties be worth saving just one missing child, just one missing Alzheimer’s patient, or just one adult-abductee?
I know there are naysayers who would argue we would be going down a slippery slope by implementing such a voluntary “chipping” program.
However, in my humble opinion, I believe the benefits of saving vulnerable lives by “chipping” would outweigh whatever privacy privileges might be diminished by such a procedure.
I challenge the medical and scientific communities to develop a safe, life-saving “chipping” system to protect, at the very least, our children.
Kathleen Rittel
East Williston
