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Originally Posted by Antonio
Most countries have similar laws - do you really think you can name your kid "Genital Wart" in the US? I seriously doubt that.
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No laws on the books in the US about it. That's why there was such a controversy about the couple that named their kids after NAZI's. The community had to come up with reasons to take the kids away, but the reasons were not their names, it's legal in the US.
My son is named Akiva Ruhan Thomas Sperber, for various reasons. Akiva is an old Hebrew name, and the way things are going, in places like Norway, they will probably outlaw Jewish names in order to "protect" the kids from anti-semitiscm.
Besides, even if I accept your premise that it is to "protect children"; in this case, a 15 year old girl WANTS TO KEEP HER NAME!! I just can't understand you guys allowing yourselves, as teenagers or adults, to have some government clerk tell you what you can or can't name yourself.... It's just a bizarre concept to me. If I want to call myself shithead, or dweebface, then it's no one's business but my own.
Sorry, I don't get your point of view at all. I can't imagine wanting to surrender all of my choices, even about my own name, to a government.
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