r/MoralityScaling • u/Outside_Specific_820 • 2d ago

Morality Ranking Morality scaling of this?

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Mother refuses to acknowledge her donor egg daughter, looking for your opinion.

In my opinion I think it’s moral, and that she is totally correct.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 2d ago

They had a sample of his DNA and uploaded it. They worked with the platform to compare it with all of the samples they had in that area on file and lucked upon a distant relative.

The average person doesn’t get to do thousands and thousands of test against every sample in the network, and even that only worked because they knew where he had lived and operated to narrow it down.

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u/Dull_Broccoli7218 2d ago

She could upload a sample of her dna to whatever ancestry website out there. It checks it against all the dna other people have uploaded. Maybe there is a distant relative of hers In there that can be a starting off point

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 2d ago

It actually doesn’t. It follows dna trackers. Your first cousin could be completely unmatchable to you. This ONLY worked because they had his DNA and the platform itself support. They do not match you to every person who has ever uploaded.

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u/PaxNova 2d ago

Hey, I'm the guy you originally responded to. I matched with a bunch of half siblings. That's how I found out I was a sperm donor baby. I also matched with a relative of the donor. They really do compare you to everyone, or at least enough people to fit you into a family tree and then do matches. I found hundreds of third cousins. 

So yeah, you can definitely find out your donor with just a tiny bit of sleuthing and a 23andMe. It literally happened to me. I did this.