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submitted 11 months ago by AlicePraxis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.

It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you're even a person yet.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah it would be cool if once you reach 18 you have a party where you chose a new name or something.

If only babies could chose their own names, would make life so much easier

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

I feel like now that I’m 30 something, I wouldn’t like whatever name I would have picked for myself at 18 lol

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago
[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I would have named myself "epic bacon" or something cuz I was a tool at 18

[-] ped_xing@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

And even now that middle-aged, I still don't feel up to the task of inflicting a name on even-older me. My parents didn't do that bad. Well, my dad tried but my mom put her foot down and said she wasn't leaving the hospital with a George. Sorry to any Georges out there.

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