It's a slippery slope.

This is the next two steps into 1984.

Once you start mandating this, there's no going back.

The next generation will start associating wrongthink with government IDs. (Wait, we already do that, right?)

> It's a slippery slope.

Is it? I thought that was a logical fallacy?

> This is the next two steps into 1984.

How so?

> Once you start mandating this, there's no going back. > The next generation will start associating wrongthink with government IDs.

Could you provide some more details on why you think this? For a start I talked about a scheme in which you don't hand over ID.

The Party doesn't care about the Proles, only the members of the Outer Party.

I think that it's rather funny that people like to appeal to 1984 as if the only point of Mr. Orwell was that surveillance is bad, missing the entire point about stuff like the control of the language or the idea that the only self-justification of the (Inner) Party is power for the sake of power (see also: The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism).

I'd even go as far as to say that if "telescreens are horrible" is the only thing that someone takes away from 1984, they've frankly missed the point.

Read another book.