Richard B., sense changing typo alert: 'Stadt' is 'town', 'Staat' is 'government(al), federal'

An ID-card is handy in those rare situations when you have to prove you are you. In examinations, for instance, though nobody over here is bothered if you show your driver's licence instead, or any other document with a picture in it.

Last time I showed my ID-card was just last week. I wanted to fetch my bicycle from the parking house for bicycles and had lost my parking ticket. Since I usually do not lock the bicycle I could have been athief just as well. They asked for some identification (not necessarily ID card) to make note of my name, just in case. It would have been a big bother without any identifying document at hand.

I'm curious, are you against identifying a person in general or against ID card as a mean to do that? What is the difference when the driver's licence is used instead of an ID-card except that not everybody has one?

Wolfgang