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What if knives had been invented by a drug lord? Who cares? What's important is whether knives are useful to us or not. If the inventor is a drug lord, then th
by wizeman 11y ago
What if knives had been invented by a drug lord?
Who cares? What's important is whether knives are useful to us or not.
If the inventor is a drug lord, then the problem is that he is a drug lord, not that he invented knives.
If someone invents something useful, then he should be rewarded, independently of whether he then uses the resulting money to save starving children or to buy Doritos all to himself.
If he does something illegal with that money, then we should come after him because he did something illegal, not because he was able to do something illegal (because he had earned a lot of money).
- ebbv 11y agoYou missed my point entirely. The point is if we know he's a bad person, we can choose not to use Bitcoin as is, and instead use a fork of it where he doesn't profit from it. Also stop with the myth that Bitcoin was completely invented by one guy. It was based upon ideas from a lot of people prior to Satoshi. If there's a moral obligation to reward him (there is not) then there's a moral obligation to reward all of them as well (there still isn't.)
- maaku 11y agoAnd you've missed the point where lives have been ruined and people could potentially be killed as a result of this nonsense.