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My parents giving me a name is one thing. The state giving me a number and arresting me if I fail to produce that number to police on demand is another.


Which one of those is problematic to you? The state giving you a number or arresting you if you refuse to identify yourself? Because you've given yourself a nice straw man to fight by conflating them.


Oh he knows that, but that’s all their type has: faux-bravado against imagined threats.

Not least: they’re ignoring that simply having an identity is a traceable & trackable thing… because that would derail their paranoid fantasies where they’re a hero, fighting against a dystopian world.


It’s funny you think there’s a difference


It's funny you think there isn't a difference between the humanity of your parents and some faceless governamental bureaucracy.


It’s funny you think there is a separation between the two in any practical way.




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