Anyone who says "people have names" is a wrong assumption can be safely dismissed as a crank.
A newborn baby needs to be entered into a hospital information system, obviously they are assigned a name at birth, right?
There are further examples of why you shouldn't require people to have names, for instance a police information system should take into account the possibility that the person entered into it is unable or unwilling to give a name (note: entering "John Doe" is a *very* poor workaround). I work with Personal Identifiable Information from all over the world and not only do I agree with th
A newborn baby needs to be entered into a hospital information system, obviously they are assigned a name at birth, right?
When my son was born, my wife and I were having a hard time finalizing his name. The hospital was not very happy that we had not bound a name to our offspring, and were even less happy at the prospect that we would leave their demesne without doing so, and implied that it was illegal for us to do so. After verifying that it was not, in fact, illegal, I contemplated doing it to demonstrate I could. However... we settled on a name before we left, and I chose not to be a d*ck to the hospital.
While doing genealogical research I have run across at least one handwritten birth certificate that has only the name "baby" and a last name, with no given name filled in. I've no doubt there are more.
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Anyone who says "people have names" is a wrong assumption can be safely dismissed as a crank.
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Anyone who says "people have names" is a wrong assumption can be safely dismissed as a crank.
A newborn baby needs to be entered into a hospital information system, obviously they are assigned a name at birth, right? There are further examples of why you shouldn't require people to have names, for instance a police information system should take into account the possibility that the person entered into it is unable or unwilling to give a name (note: entering "John Doe" is a *very* poor workaround). I work with Personal Identifiable Information from all over the world and not only do I agree with th
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A newborn baby needs to be entered into a hospital information system, obviously they are assigned a name at birth, right?
When my son was born, my wife and I were having a hard time finalizing his name. The hospital was not very happy that we had not bound a name to our offspring, and were even less happy at the prospect that we would leave their demesne without doing so, and implied that it was illegal for us to do so. After verifying that it was not, in fact, illegal, I contemplated doing it to demonstrate I could. However... we settled on a name before we left, and I chose not to be a d*ck to the hospital.
While doing genealogical research I have run across at least one handwritten birth certificate that has only the name "baby" and a last name, with no given name filled in. I've no doubt there are more.