Before I was born or conceived, I had no name. After I was conceived and
began multiplying My cells, I had no name. When I emerged from My
mother's womb, I had no name.

Other (putative) humans attached labels to Me, and called Me by them.
They told Me: This is Your Name, and You shall be known by none other.

My desires or choices were never taken into account. Never even considered.

I still have no name. Just labels. But today I have more choices.

My mother has no name. Just labels. My father no longer exists. He had
no name either, just labels, and his labels refer only to memories or to
decayed flesh and bone in a box buried beneath an expensively-maintained
park-like area labeled a "cemetery".

Peace,
Mike

PS: I don't much trust my biological family.

On 07/11/2013 06:57 PM, JINDQ1 wrote:
> If you extend on that principle, you'll see that we only trust family
> because we can tell them apart. What if your mother and father were
> anonymous? How would that change your world? What if all people were
> completely faceless and could change names and appearance at any
> moment? I'm having a hard time believing that's in the best interest
> of a society that seeks to protect itself in numbers. Maybe DNA will
> be the answer to that, not bitcoin.
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>
> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
> That's kind of breathtaking, Matthew.
>
> Might I offer that political economy isn't the only grid by which we
> should evaluate the concept?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???
> <mailto:jindq1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>

>     I'd love to mock them (because it's easy), but if you want to play
>     the game created by old dudes who still think IP address = single
>     person, you'll have to follow all the rules.

>

>     The real question is, is being anonymous good for society? I
>     haven't seen a single benefit of anonymity (lacking any
>     verification documents) that isn't highly outweighed by it's
>     ability to enable abuse. Human beings may be nameless, but they're
>     not non-quantifiable. Is there a way to remove the names and keep
>     the verifiable quantity that doesn't make the libertarians twitch
>     and squirm?

>

>     Matthew

>