Greg Egan on Nostr: I have refugee friends who don’t know their true dates of birth, and who have been ...

I have refugee friends who don’t know their true dates of birth, and who have been forced to either invent dates or have invented dates foisted upon them, and then end up ensnared by the “inconsistencies” between their various official documents.

The inflexibility of our systems, in circumstances where any human with a brain can understand perfectly why there is an innocent reason for these kinds of disparities, is just maddening.