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Re:Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in e... by tboyd47 on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:29PM (#18593274)
Really? The idea of age being a publicly known and verifiable fact is completely specific to highly developed Western cultures. Many places in the world attach no importance to date/time of birth and do not record it.
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Re:Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in e... by Spooky23 on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:43PM (#18593397)
The Netherlands, the country in question, is a highly developed western culture.

Whatever adjudication process that exists in a culture that doesn’t care about date of birth would probably reach a different judgement.

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