Out of interest, Steve: what about your tv licence? your driving licence? Do you think it unnecessary that we should all have our births registered, and have birth certificates issued? Which of the various documents which over the years have become regarded as necessary, so that they are taken for granted [but why should we all have birth certificates?, just ask yourself, if you are to be consistent] would you abolish? And, following on from that, why is it so unthinkable to you that any new ones might ever be added to their number? I frankly do not think you are being right bright about this. To hear you tell it, all the extant ones are OK, but any additions would be a tyrannical assault on the very basis of your civil liberties! And surely you can see that your "without good reason" in your final sentence is an unconscionable begging of the question -- in the true petitio principii sense.

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