Why does nobody ever point out the simple advantages to most people in their daily lives of ID cards? Instant proof of who you are and how old you are, what medical problems you may have if youre in an accident, for starters? They'll make daily life easier for people in all sorts of ways. Forget arguments about terrorism. They wouldnt have stopped the london bombimgs or the IRA. And criminals will find some ways to abuse them. No system is perfect. And forget the claims about Civil Liberties - nobody seems capable of showing any serious threat to civil liberties to ordinary honest people. Those arguments are so absurdly hypothetical as to be risible. For all sorts of ordinary mundane day to day practical reasons, theyre a good idea, and dozens of much freer countries than UK use them routinely and can't see what the fuss here is about. I have NEVER yet heard one single concrete argument against them

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