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By that argument, having children should be outlawed based on the environmental impact.

by Frogolocalypse 9y ago

21 9y ago
You are joking, but some people are seriously proposing that. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-foo...
- Frogolocalypse 9y ago
  Oh I know. But what these things all share is that the government shouldn't be in the business of regulating freedom. Governments shouldn't be in the business of telling you what you can do, they should be in the business of asking you what's important to you. Freedom is hard. Actually requiring probable cause before being subjected to the justice system used to be a thing. Then the US government started stealing peoples money without ever even charging them with a crime. So now we have crypto. So the government can't do it anymore. "But but but what if they are committing a crime!" they say. Prove it i say. You know. Rule of law. That's what democracies are supposed to be about aren't they? And that attack on freedom now has crypto as a response. The thing that it is counter-intuitive about crypto, is that the solution to electronic anonymous and censorship resistant money, turned out being record everything forever. When someone can flick a switch and take everything from you, you don't have freedom. When you can access the ledger from anyone, prove that it it is valid, and be able to send your money to anyone, for whatever purpose, you do. This technology has been developed as a direct response to the insidious and anti-democratic implementation of AML/KYC laws on a global scale over the past 30 years. The extrapolation of these laws, given a long enough timeline, is slavery. Not figurative slavery, actual slavery. Bitcoin is the technical response to that problem.

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By that argument, having children should be outlawed based on the environmental impact.

by Frogolocalypse 9y ago

By that argument, having children should be outlawed based on the environmental impact.

21 9y ago
You are joking, but some people are seriously proposing that. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-foo...
- Frogolocalypse 9y ago
  Oh I know. But what these things all share is that the government shouldn't be in the business of regulating freedom. Governments shouldn't be in the business of telling you what you can do, they should be in the business of asking you what's important to you. Freedom is hard. Actually requiring probable cause before being subjected to the justice system used to be a thing. Then the US government started stealing peoples money without ever even charging them with a crime. So now we have crypto. So the government can't do it anymore. "But but but what if they are committing a crime!" they say. Prove it i say. You know. Rule of law. That's what democracies are supposed to be about aren't they? And that attack on freedom now has crypto as a response. The thing that it is counter-intuitive about crypto, is that the solution to electronic anonymous and censorship resistant money, turned out being record everything forever. When someone can flick a switch and take everything from you, you don't have freedom. When you can access the ledger from anyone, prove that it it is valid, and be able to send your money to anyone, for whatever purpose, you do. This technology has been developed as a direct response to the insidious and anti-democratic implementation of AML/KYC laws on a global scale over the past 30 years. The extrapolation of these laws, given a long enough timeline, is slavery. Not figurative slavery, actual slavery. Bitcoin is the technical response to that problem.