It's an american view, mostly due to having only experience with ID documents through WW2 movies or cold War propaganda, mixed with religious voices against it ("mark of the beast", wish I was joking).
Elsewhere, "Papers, please" tends to be sign of excessive "stop-and-frisk" or movement restrictions, and the idea of having basic ID card seems to not have much of an opposition. Especially since it's much simpler than sometimes circular requirements of "web of trust" confirmations like in UK (though I heard it got better)
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It's an american view, mostly due to having only experience with ID documents through WW2 movies or cold War propaganda, mixed with religious voices against it ("mark of the beast", wish I was joking).
Elsewhere, "Papers, please" tends to be sign of excessive "stop-and-frisk" or movement restrictions, and the idea of having basic ID card seems to not have much of an opposition. Especially since it's much simpler than sometimes circular requirements of "web of trust" confirmations like in UK (though I heard it got better)