On Thursday 20 January 2005 6:20 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > 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.
No, you don't have to act different if I decide to call you George... but would you like it? > > > 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. And your genealogy does not determine your name or who you are. > In fact, you heritage is the one thing you cannot possibly change, so that > absolutely is a definite identifier of "who you are". Except that people can change who they 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. No. Her name was and is (from the information available) Judy. > Just like how my name is Christopher Gianelloni, but I have people call me > Chris. In the eyes of the law, I am Christoper. Or "Chris". > If I want to start calling myself Jack, I will still be Chris until such > time as I legally change my name. Common law determines that whatever you are called by is, in fact, your name. There is no special "legal name" property. On Thursday 20 January 2005 6:18 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: > We've been here already with 'Luke-Jr' who is, apparently, only 'Luke-Jr' -- > suffice to say that you can feel free to believe you are whoever you want to > be online My name is Luke-Jr (splittable into first name "Luke" and last name "-Jr"; most identification of mine has a space in between but I choose to omit it) not just online, but in all uses (legal, physical-space, etc). > right up until you decide you want to participate in Gentoo development. Since apparently Gentoo thinks it can define what your name is and can be. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
