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And then there are civilised countries that do not have national ID, yet their citizens can vote, purchase property, access higher education, obtain employment,
by x38iq84n 8y ago
And then there are civilised countries that do not have national ID, yet their citizens can vote, purchase property, access higher education, obtain employment, access credit, or public health, among other fundamental rights. Hence, national ID is clearly not necessary.
- pjc50 8y agoThe UK now has half of this: you have to prove your right of residence in order to rent property, and you have to prove your right to work in order to work, but there isn't a national ID system to enable that. (The decision that people can't "vote, purchase property, access higher education, obtain employment, access credit, or public health, among other fundamental rights" without ID is a political one, it's not necessarily intrinsically required)
- dazc 8y agoIn the UK we don't have national ID but try and do anything without a passport or driving licence.
- krautsourced 8y agoInstead a weird mix of council tax bills or your last water bill's address or such is used as identification, which is hardly any better.
- DanBC 8y agoPeople can get an idea of what's used to prove ID and address from this list. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proof-of-identity-checklist/proof-of-identity-checklist https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proof-of-identity...
- nestorD 8y agoThe absence of national ID just means that a substitute, tat was not designed for this purpose (such as a driver's license), is used instead. This introduces its own set of problems as illustrated by this video on voter registration in the US : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5Qs0fc_I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5Qs0fc_I0
- johnchristopher 8y agoWhat ? What makes you think such a flawed reasoning would convince anyone ?