id?

Identity is confusing, and is such a sensitive subject that I often find myself expecting people to be a bit more careful when it comes to be dicussed. I'm disappointed most of the time. How do you concede to your identity as name and id card?
Perhaps because public and private identity merge so much that the line is blurred. Or people just don't care about the private identity because public identity is created and given; no one really needs to work at it to come to a conclusion or definiton. I think if you rely too much on this, though, you cease to be yourself. Turning slowly into a puppet with so-called identity, who is content and settled for all the wrong reasons.
I need to know where I stand, free from the labels and descriptions I've been given. Sometimes society's or a country's ideology could differ so much from your principles, and when it happens, you need to be strong and settled enough to have your stand. Public decisions are not necessarily mine, and the fact that I've been given an identity as a part of the larger whole doesn't mean that I'm responsible for the consequences of public actions. I'm not running away, this is true because public actions are not always my actions; public policies are not automatically mine.
Of course private identity isn't likely to be broadcasted publicly, but a strong affirmation to yourself is necessary.