Originally Posted by alex0683de
Fair enough. However, even with the government involved, what exactly is the problem you have with showing ID? It's useless for security, I agree, but what is it about showing your ID that annoys you so much? It's not like the IDs are recorded and your movements tracked, I would object to that as well, but I have no problem with showing my ID to some dolt who sees so many of them each day that he could care less about who you are, as long as you're the person whose name appears on the boarding pass.
Even if this guy is paid by the government, and complying with a government regulation, what does it matter? You're still anonymous, just one of thousands of flyers each day, it's just that some guy has matched the name on a little plastic card with your name on it against a name on a boarding pass. So what?
Where exactly is your problem with this? Is it about the waste of $$, or do you take issue with something else?
This is not meant as a criticism or anything along those lines, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from.
I do not wish to identify myself without a good reason to do so. It is no one's business who I am, unless I have some kind of relationship established with them that mandates I show my ID, or there is some kind of business situation where identifying me makes sense, e.g. I am trying to cash a check at a bank that does not know me.