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Could you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The other day I was driving recklessly down the road, minding my own business, and an officer asked me for documents showing I had performed my due diligence to drive on a public road without endangering others. Truly we have lost the fight already. As long as I am only thinking of myself, doing my own thing, nobody should bother me - it's private!

I initially missed your sarcasm but yes, truly, this is the worst outcome. What’s next, requiring driving passports to operate a vehicle? Identity passports to enter a foreign country?

When will the madness end??

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> When will the madness end

Madness ends with discrimination. The importance of a licence to operating machinery dangerous for the nearby only after validation is clear-cut; that of limiting access to damaging intoxicants to weak decisors with unmyelinated brains is clear-cut; other contexts are not.

Excluding children from education is the exact same thing as excluding minors from consuming alcohol