Iceland teen known legally as 'girl' fights for right to name

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pezus said:

Immortal said:
Good Lord. I'm sorry; I'm almost always very socialistic and comfortable with government control, but a freaking list of names given by the government is inviting so many Big Brother comparisons it isn't even funny.

I can understand that you don't want people having horrid names and you're trying to curb bullying, but this is absurdly extreme from the perspective of almost the entire world.

Fox is overblowing it. A list that can be easily expanded as long as it conforms with the grammar and other factors.

Well, it is Fox.

Still, any restrictions on naming children at all are quite unheard of in most places. I mean, is it worth sacrificing this kind of freedom to any extent for whatever minor benefits it offers? I mean, protecting the lanuage, really? I tend to approve of not bastardizing languages, but this really ain't worth it.

In fact, I'm rather surprised that we haven't yet had one of the many government-hating right-wing people on this sitecomment on this yet. This kind of government regulation is extremely unusual, to say the least.

That said, as long as this system is approved by the people for the most part, which it seems to be, more power to them. If Icelanders approve of this, then I don't think anyone outside has any business objecting.