My guess is you don't actually KNOW who most of of the people you know actually are, you've taken their word for who they SAID they were. How do you really know your neighbor Bill Smith is actually Bill Smith?
Identity establishes whether he is known to have a problem going on other people's lawns or if he's a convicted child rapist that likes seeding other peoples lawns. Maybe he's just a hot tempered bully that has a history of assaulting other people. I'd like to know this. I understand not all bad people have been caught yet, but enough have that it's worth knowing who you're dealing with.
How do you ensure someone holds up their end of a business relationship if you don't know who they really are? Do you think you can find "your neighbor who said his name was Sam" to collect on a debt if Sam isn't his real name and he moves while you're at work one day?
Except we don't execute them here, we parole them to re-offend, so you better find some way of figuring out which of the people near you are dangerous like that. Which would be really hard to do if you don't have some way to verify who they actually are
That isn't really much of a deterrent to someone who just moves on to another place to scam the next group of individuals who have no idea they're dealing with a scam artist.
How do you "know" them? Just because they've been a good neighbor for years don't mean they're not a con artist. A society can't really function without a mechanism for identifying and dealing with bad actors..
My guess is you don't actually KNOW who most of of the people you know actually are, you've taken their word for who they SAID they were. How do you really know your neighbor Bill Smith is actually Bill Smith?
I don't care whether my neighbor is really Bill Smith or not
I only care that he stays off my lawn
If we enter into a business transaction, all I care about is that he holds up his end and I hold up my end.
Identity is overrated. We proved a long time ago that we can have a functioning society on the internet with anonymity.
Identity establishes whether he is known to have a problem going on other people's lawns or if he's a convicted child rapist that likes seeding other peoples lawns. Maybe he's just a hot tempered bully that has a history of assaulting other people. I'd like to know this. I understand not all bad people have been caught yet, but enough have that it's worth knowing who you're dealing with.
How do you ensure someone holds up their end of a business relationship if you don't know who they really are? Do you think you can find "your neighbor who said his name was Sam" to collect on a debt if Sam isn't his real name and he moves while you're at work one day?