Every living thing that doesn't is food for another that does. Going along with our peers isn't a crime. It's the basis for civil society, that blessing without which you would not be alive.
It didn't begin with the boomers and it sure better not end with them, or humanity is doomed. It is not we who work together to make a better world for our posterity to inherit that are the problem. It is overlords that plunder our productivity and hold a gun to our head to ensure our compliance, and I am confident you well know that, because few so revile and seek to counter it as do you.
I hold human society sacred not because we cannot get along, but because we can, and when we do we created the blessings of civilization and peace and felicity. We that get along aren't your bugbear.
We will outcompete the bugbears, or die trying.
Unless they are treasonous criminals, too.
We wouldn't have id cards if more than half of the people weren't too numb, or dumb, to know their own rights.
That makes them a very real threat to my rights.
When they allow their rights to be violated it makes enforcing my rights that much harder.
When a cop asks me for id he violates my 5th amendment right to not participate in his 'investigation'.
I know my rights.
I also know what contempt of cop brings.
He knows that he won't be getting called on his treason, too few people understand that he even committed it, let alone know what to do when an agent of the state goes rogue.
He also knows that if I meet his threat of force with overwhelming force the general public is not on my side.
So, there I am, bleeding out on the side of the road, or freezing in a cell and rotting away slowly, all because some people are too chicken to speak up?
Really?
If you are on the porch now, you are the enemy of every freedom lover on the planet.
Your choices have consequences, whether you like them to, or not.
The choice to do nothing supports the status quo.
You carry id, or you'd be in a cell now. Don't blame folks that do the same things you do to stay alive, especially those that don't even know it's wrong.