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The government is totally not going to abuse this

WTF?

Light: what’s your name again?

Columbo: Lt. Columbo sir, only my wife calls me by my first name.

That’s not his blood btw

It's likely someone born in Kiribati on Jan 1st in the year 2000. Given the small population of the island, it probably isn't even too hard to find out.

I worked in academia for 10 years. I do not recommend it.

Generally speaking, I am attracted to things that are non-conforming/taboo

they can be confident in their social power and openly admit that they don't know. However, you'll really only see this with high ranking people that have security in their social rank (e.g. executives, famous professors, etc.) , those that are so low in their rank that not knowing isn't going to affect them, or people that are visiting temporarily so their long-term position doesn't matter or they have an excuse to not know.

I very much agree with everything you said, except for the above sentence. Being high ranking in a formal institution doesn't automatically translate to being high social status and it certainly doesn't translate to being confident.

Many people in high ranking positions are extremely insecure and will cling to their position in a desperate attempt to increase their status. Being ignorant may not affect a high ranker position but it will affect their status (especially if the ignorance is displayed in a social setting). Because of this, how a person respond will be heavily affected by the status of the asker.