Isn't that what they did in Nazi Germany?
2007-07-07 16:35:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I think you have a point. Little by little we subject ourselves to being numbers.
I lived in a small island town for a decade where I just put my wallet and my ID and my driver's license in a drawer. No one ever asked for ID. I felt like a human being and I was treated like one.
Moving away from that relationship with other human beings caused me to realize how odd we are to have to prove via paper and ID that we're people. It's a great loss of respect, which leads us to treat other people with less respect, who then react through disrespect etc etc It all builds upon itself. People act less respectful if they are treated with suspicion simply as a matter of course. We all just take it for granted, but that's what makes it hegemonic. That's my take on it.
2007-07-07 16:56:51 · answer #1 · answered by Habitus 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
O.K., where is it that you show your ID "where ever you go"? I show my ID when I go on base; that is it.
It was not only Nazi Germany, but Russia, Poland, Czech, all of those places. If you go to Italy, mind your P's and Q's; you might not come back. Then there's Turkey and all the rest of the Middle East. There are a whole lot of places that constantly ask for ID's; the U.S. is not one of them, unless you are referring to special circumstances, such as making a $25,000.00 cash deposit or flying somewhere.
2007-07-07 23:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares? At least, we're not being shot in the head for disobeying. That's what Nazis would've done. If you don't have anything to hide, then why think about it?
Everyone is so concerned that people suspect they're 'not who they say they are'. I'd rather someone ask for my ID than to have my checkbook stolen someday and someone write a dozen checks out and their ID never asked to be looked at.
Choose: security or identity theft. We live in a different era. The computer era.
2007-07-08 01:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by Beautiful Chaos 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It would be if it were like that. Where are you going that you're having to show your ID that frequently? I showed mine once last week to get on base (military ID), and have only shown my civilian ID in the past several years at the airport.
2007-07-07 23:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nazi Germany would have given you the booze and then shipped you off to a concentration camp for being a drunk.
Grow up.
2007-07-07 23:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes; having to flash my ID everywhere to prevent identity theft is really the same thing as having my home broken into by "the police", being abducted from my home, separated from my family, and being forced into a hellish prison camp.
2007-07-07 23:39:53 · answer #6 · answered by thebabelinkin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they still do, it's the law
2007-07-08 00:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋