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Old 01-16-2006, 08:07 PM  
kenny
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You don?t need an ssn or a birth cert. We have been around, organized, long before we had useless papers. Even then, if you look at them as what they are, they are GOV forms of ID, which only have to be used when dealing with or within the GOV. IE: You really don?t need to give your SSN to get a bank account, some forms of credit, (a natural person)

This still has nothing to do with keeping track of a robber/criminal though. Even if we had no standard form of id, if a person has committed a crime he is going to have prints. And even in todays standard, if he hasn?t done a crime, then they wouldn?t have prints, or be able to track whom it was, even with current forms of ID.

What sucks is they are taking prints for all kinds of crap these days, passports, drivers? licenses, and so on. For what? A ?possible? crime? I don?t plan on doing a crime and the statistical chances of it happening to me is super rare. So why do they need to keep track of me? And why with prints?
It kind of makes it impossible to run a functioning society when you don't keep track of things like weither or not they have children, and what country they live in.

You can argue it all day long. They didn't invent these things for your discomfort.

As for the criminal aspect of it - it makes it difficult to find suspects when there isn't even records of them existing.

I don't know what you're thinking but a government that doesn't keep track of it citizens is borderline anarchy.
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