Tom Stones is a young man on the edge.

He woke up one morning, looked in the newspaper and to his surprise saw an elderly version of himself in a photograph of ageing rocker Dylan Dagg. Tom has never met or seen his father. His mother had told him that she and his father had "made a hash of things" and he left before Tom was born. Tom and his mother, Gem, live comfortable in a house on Sydney Harbour.

After quizzing Gem about his father, 15-year-old Tom decided to do some detective work. He bought front row tickets to the Final Australian Tour Dylan Dagg concert. While Dylan was body surfing in the moh pit, Tom plucked a single hair from his head. He then sent this sample, along with a hair from his own head and one from his mother's (surreptitiously plucked from the comb) to DNA testing company "Paternity Solutions."

For a $720 he has discovered that there is a high probability that Dylan Dagg could be his father.

Gem is reported as saying, "Tom is going through a strange phase at the moment, I won't comment as it costs to kiss and tell."

Dylan's wife, supermodel, Luscious Cherry says "this is the last straw for me, I'm leaving him. and I am going to make him pay."

Civil libertarian Mr Fee Range is outraged that the "stolen" DNA samples were tested by Paternity Solution, "How can such important genetic information be tested for without people's permission knowledge? Who is regulating the activity of these laboratories?"

The CEO of Paternity Solution says "there is now law against testing these sample ; I run a good service that people want"

My opinion is yes. Absent anyone convincing me otherwise, our default position should be "everything is allowed, unless there is a good reason to forbid it", rather than the reverse " everything is forbidden, unless there is a good reason to allow it". The later would not be a nice world to live in.