by Jason Morris

I have seen a ton of articles in the past few days about laws requiring background checks for on-line dating services. This reminds me of a scene in Amazon Women on the Moon called "Two I.D.’s" with Steve Guttenberg and Rosanna Arquette. If you have not seen it I recommend it! In a nutshell, Guttenberg picks up Arquette for a blind date and she asks for two forms of I.D., she then swipes it into her phone and gets a hundred page print-out including the last time he went to the bathroom.

I am all for background checks, but I don’t think the government should focus on situations where a person "knowingly" puts themself into a situation where there could be a lot of  risk. I think it would be a GREAT idea if the ’services’ offered the user an "option" to run this check for an additional fee, but requiring it is putting laws where they don’t belong.  However, a person going into a work situation has the right to work in a safe environment, I think an employee should EXPECT that resonable efforts are made to ensure this safe, wholesome workplace. If the state and federal government want to require background checks, they should start in places where the expectation is low risk.

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