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RE: Usenames! Why do users choose Pseudonyms?
Fair point but I don't think passports, driving licenses, ownership of property, registering with a doctor or school etc would work so well without a consitent identity. On a spiritual level, maybe our birth name does reflect who we really are and not who we dream we want to be. I voted you up anyway because you make some great points
I think the future of a digitized identity and is to have every individual registered to a unique cryptographic key that represents their "true identity." Under that sort of system, you have universality of record keeping that is linguistically neutral, but also no need to tie your identity to a "name" that isn't of your own choosing. What you "call yourself" and what your legal identity is do not need to be the same thing, just as when people call their friends by a nickname, they aren't referring to some other different person just because it's not the same as their "real name."
EDIT: Interesting discussion. Thanks for raising the question!