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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So, if all those questions were properly answered, and everyone knew what the ID cards were and accepted them... would you be for ID cards?
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Hypothetically. But I have trouble imaging an answer to "who gets to demand to see the ID cards, and in what circumstances" that doesn't come off as either an invasion of constitutional rights against search & seizure, *or* completely useless.
I also have trouble imagining an effective way to deal with lost/stolen cards that doesn't completely screw over people who've already undergone some level of trauma. (If your house burns down, how do you prove your identity? If you've been mugged at gunpoint, how long will it take you to get a new card?)
And, kids... I wouldn't willingly allow the government to track my kids with an implanted device, and nothing else is going to keep kids & ID cards attached to each other.
They're not so much "questions" as "rhetorical devices to show how far we are from a society that could require ID cards without adding to oppression and abuse."