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The Wikipedia page you linked to disagrees with your assertion that almost every country in the world has it. "In many countries – especially English-speaking
by phillc73 6y ago
The Wikipedia page you linked to disagrees with your assertion that almost every country in the world has it.
"In many countries – especially English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States – there are no government-issued compulsory identity cards for all citizens."
- JonRB 6y agoI think the key word there is compulsory - I've lived in a couple of those places and it was pretty easy to get a drivers-license level of ID document without too much trouble (and without having a drivers license of my own).
- oblio 6y agoDude, it's just English speaking people, basically. So yes, everyone else has it. And it's not like everything else is a nightmare dystopia...
- haunter 6y agoSo it's pretty much the common law countries vs the rest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_the_Legal_systems_of_the_world_(en).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_...