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Originally posted by Undertoad
If the majority doesn't want it, how can detractors be called "extremists"?
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Do they not want it or have they been subverted by a lack of knowledge combined with hype and fear of extremist sound bytes.
Undertoad's question is well stated. However I find it irrelevant. Emotional fear associated with no knowledge of what a National ID really is demonstrates how quickly people fear before they first have knowledge.
It reminds me of Leno interviews where they ask something like, "Do you support the elimination of the Sacrospicas in Endenouw". People were strongly opposed. One problem. There was no Sacrospicas nor a place called Endenouw. For all they knew, Sacrospicas was a disease worse than the black plague. But emotional is how most make decisions - and opposed the elimination.
There is no effort to address the National ID system. It will take the equivalent of a WTC collapse to address the problem because, as we demonstrated, the intolerant and fearful entertain their fears before they engage logical thought.
Notice the so many who had no idea how an ID system would work, what its objective were, and yet were convinced it would threaten their rights and privacy. Notice the many who could provide zero reasons why such a system would be made mandatory but instead entertained their fears, as proof, that a National ID system would be mandatory.
Notice who opposed the concept without having the slightest idea what the system was. OK, if they first understood the system, and had fears, then yes - that could be a logical thought. But please review this thread to identify who is so driven by their fears (instead of logic) as to fear a system without even knowing what the system did, or how it worked. "Its government, therefore it must be evil" is illogical and emotional thinking.
If you choose not to use the system, then it clearly was no threat to your privacy. And yet look at who still feared it anyway. It again begs the question - do you think using a head on your shoulders or the one located between your legs? Do you think logically or do your emotions determine your actions?
No, a National ID system is not a possiblity because too many still think like a hormone crazed teen-ager or have strong opinions to a fictional Leno street poll. Too many people simply fear change. Too many court their fears rather than try to push out the envelope, boldly go where no man has gone before, and use logical thinking. A National ID system is not even being planned as best I can tell making the Undertoad question, in this case, irrelevant.