The ability to be anonymous is an important one and should always remain available, but in general day to day usage anonymity is only used by people who don't w

The ability to be anonymous is an important one and should always remain available, but in general day to day usage anonymity is only used by people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions (or words). I see no problem with tying my offline identity to my online one. Besides, if you wanted to disconnect the identities you just create multiple OpenIds for each identity you want to act out.