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You live in the most puritan country in EU. Polish women have to illegally (because your country made it illegal for pregnant women) cross borders to have medic
by throwaway98721 3y ago
You live in the most puritan country in EU. Polish women have to illegally (because your country made it illegal for pregnant women) cross borders to have medically necessary abortions and then they will be persecuted if they return.
Anyways, I never had to produce ID when I bought alcohol and cigarettes while I visited Poland.
- badpun 3y agoPlease read what Purtanism is, before you start talking about it. E.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans (short version - puritanism was a movement that orignated on the British Isles, and spread to the US from there. It never ever made it to Poland). As for the original issue - once it's visibly obvious that you're over 18, nobody asks you to produce your ID. The only exceptions are automated (self-service) tills.
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- throwaway98721 3y agoNotice that I said "puritan", not "Puritan" - "puritan" usually doesn't mean anything directly connected to the Puritans in modern discourse. Check the dictionary. It has a generalized primary meaning today. And your country is the definition of it (of course, also not literally). From your link: "Puritanism was never a formally defined religious division within Protestantism, and the term Puritan itself was rarely used after the turn of the 18th century." - that makes it extremely unlikely I meant it literally, don't you think? As for the original issue - I wasn't over 18 back then and it was very visible.