On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:59 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > What is even more fun, is babies switched at birth? Who are they.
They are the names that are on their birth certificates. The name has nothing to do with how they grow up and evolve. Just because I start calling you George, doesn't mean you're going to start acting different. You're really stretching for something here, aren't you? > Identiy is more that who my parents were and what name was put on my > birth certificate, expecially when those documents can be lost or No. It isn't. How you act does not change your genealogy. In fact, you heritage is the one thing you cannot possibly change, so that absolutely is a definite identifier of "who you are". > destroyed. My mother grew up as Judy, when she went to get a passport > in her late 20's, she discovered that the name on her birth certificate > was Elizabeth Frances XXX. Her parents had divorced and her mother had > died when she was young so apperarently her Father had not liked that > name so he called her Judy. Did any of that change her identiy? No. Her name was always Elizabeth Frances. Just like how my name is Christopher Gianelloni, but I have people call me Chris. In the eyes of the law, I am Christoper. If I want to start calling myself Jack, I will still be Chris until such time as I legally change my name. (Sorry for continuing this thread even more, but this was so full of it I could help to respond... ;p) -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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