What's in a name?
Ahhh, our names. The greatest benchmark of our individuality invented.
So, what made names so great? What began as a simple "identifier" of different people has today blossomed into the single greatest symbol of individuality. After all, numbers can identify someone. Why not use them?
As a matter of fact, they've already been tried. Mao used them during his reign of terror in China, mostly for the peasants. The system didn't work. They destroyed any sense of individuality, and any sense of self-pride (communist nations have a tendency to do so). Human moral declined. After all, you were merely a "number". Not a human, a statistic.
It is because of the individuality that comes in our names that we have a sense of self pride. The name is the best word to desribe ourselves, because it encompasses all our achievements and puts them all in one word.
Therefore, names are the grandest benchmarks of individuality ever invented.
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Therefore, names are the grandest benchmarks of individuality ever invented.
Hah! This is clearly bullshit just as I have observed many times on the occasion that children are named.
Sometimes name-givers/parents take the names from the family or from friends. Many times it's explained as 'no reason' or 'liked the sound of it'. In either case it bares little relation that I can see to who that kid is as an individual- especially at their primitive stage of developing something resembling an individual personality!
At any rate, even if our limited nomial system could signify individuality there are far far richer ways at our disposal to express such a thing.
Ahh, so numbers really are better. Or how about codenames. Aka 93GHA345? Perhaps you should rename yourself to that, Rick?
Choose a name that means something!
"Ayn" meant something!
That's my point.
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"Choose a name that means something!
"Ayn" meant something!
That's my point."
Numbers can't mean something. Names can. That's my point.
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