Dutch man, 69, brings lawsuit to lower his age 20 years

&gt; &quot;You can change your name. You can change your gender. Why not your age?&quot;<p>Solid logic

Flagged? This is the legal&#x2F;social equivalent of &quot;falsehoods programmers believe about time.&quot;[0]<p>Most people don&#x27;t realize time is relative and actually hard to pin down with logical precision in every case. Once you start to question the rules and references, there are lots of quirks.<p>I do think his argument about Tinder is more interesting than you might think. Why should he have to lie about his age on this public accommodation? He doesn&#x27;t have to lie about his sex or race, even though some people choose intimate relationships on those factors. Why not put the onus on those who wish to &quot;discriminate&quot; against his age to out themselves as people who care about age?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infiniteundo.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;25326999628&#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infiniteundo.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;25326999628&#x2F;falsehoods-program...</a>

I was originally against transgenderism having legal authority because of its effects on other methods of identification (like age). I suppose with that battle finished, this is the inevitable successor.<p>Well, I&#x27;m not going to be on the losing side this time. Here&#x27;s to hoping for an age-fluid world in 5 years!

I&#x27;d go the other way, I want to identify as a 70 year old and get my social security cheques.<p>Maybe this is how we implement basic income.

Ah... Emile Ratelband. Since &quot;Tsjakkaa!&quot; isn&#x27;t so much on the television any more he craving for attention. He has been doing other tricks to get some attention in the past and this is also one of these tricks. I don&#x27;t think anyone in my country takes this guy serious anymore.

&gt; A local court in the city of Arnhem, south-east of Amsterdam, is expected to rule on the case within four weeks.<p>That seems inefficient and slow. Someone I knew growing up wanted to drive sooner. They asked their father to get them a new birth certificate. A few phone calls later, a &quot;gift&quot; to the right person at the records office and voila, he turned a year older. It was both scary and amazing that legally his age changed overnight.

in the US seems like a lot of age-based laws, even the Constitution, would have to change to allow this. I.E. you have to be 35 to run for president, <i>voice cracking</i> &quot;no problem I identify as that!&quot;

Hah, I don&#x27;t know if someone that senile could actually pass for 49. &quot;Age is a choice!&quot; like if he wanted to be born in 1230, we&#x27;d all just have to go along and agree that it is true and makes sense with our concept of time. No, it doesn&#x27;t work like that.<p>Maybe he should&#x27;ve taken the time to convince the people drafting his birth certificate to put a different year on it back when they were writing it... if he can&#x27;t do that, then he shouldn&#x27;t have the power to change his age.<p>Of course, he can certainly lie about his age on tinder. Don&#x27;t know why he needs a lawsuit to do that.