Unfortunately, it'd appear that I understand this fine. See my other comment that was already there in this subthread an hour before you posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096731

Before you further grant me any other imagined positions and misunderstandings, I actually do not happen to think that digital IDs, as currently conceived or with ZK, are better than pussy either. I just don't find them immediately objectionable. This is possible through the magic of not having a settled position on them just yet, as it's clear I have stuff to catch up on, as I'm not from the anglosphere (and thus Orwell's works are not culturally indoctrinated into me), and as my two options to learn more are:

- word salads published by various impossible to follow EU bodies

- people who think having an ID alone is like, literally 1984, let alone a digital one, and will "discuss" the subject accordingly

Somehow, this keeps me at more than an arm's distance away.

It's also generally unconvincing to keep reading about how xyz is not possible, from the people who would very blatantly object xyz even if it was entirely possible.