From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 12:19:38 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
re: Hugh Hefner
Your argument here amounts to saying that it's okay to pretend to be
someone you are not, provided that you don't step on anyone's toes in
the process. No one disagrees with that, Rafal. However there is a
difference between being someone and pretending to be someone. Identity
is not a matter of taste. I cannot become Hugh Hefner, regardless of how
I might perceive myself.
re: the 911 call
> ### This is a good one :-)
Glad you liked it. :)
> The 911 call would then be: "Officer, this is gts,
> SSN#312432-48 through 57,
Whoa, stop right there. If we have different social security numbers
then we are different people even before the crime. Not only would my
copies and I have different non-nominal identities (as I've been
arguing) but we would also have different nominal identities. A social
security number is like a name. We might just as well call them bob and
frank and john, e.g.,
"Officer, this is gts, a person closely associated with three other
persons named bob and frank and john. The four of us all stem from the
same root person. Last night john broke into my house..." etc
-gts
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