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The questions of morality are largely orthogonal to questions whether surrounding institutions have strategies to address behavior considered 'problematic'. In

The questions of morality are largely orthogonal to questions whether surrounding institutions have strategies to address behavior considered 'problematic'. In the overworld, we have institutions which continuously interpret, enforce, refine, and revise both the letter and the spirit of contracts and law. Ethereum developers and VIPs have already shown that they'll use hard forks to steer the community towards their preferred direction, and individuals will have to decide which chain to pursue. Since your actions are small beans and unlikely to prompt the Ethereum decision makers to reverse these transactions, you and others can likely keep doing such things in the future, and those affected will have little choice but to accept it.

drdeca 9y ago
Ok, but their question was morality, not what will be enforced, so, I'm not sure why you are bringing up what will be enforced?
- AgentME 9y ago
  I think they are interestingly intertwined questions. If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. From the other angle, existing enforcement mechanisms will impose themselves as trying to define what moral is. In a way, besides the little selfish gains, I may be fatalistically trying to define "code is law" as moral because it is what I am presently capable of enforcing. Maybe I'm just talking myself in a circle; it's good fuel to ruminate on.
  - BraveNewCurency 9y ago
    > If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. I think you left out "and a lot of money is involved". Do you think there would have been an emergency hard fork if the DAO only had $100 in it? I sincerely doubt it. > existing enforcement mechanisms will impose themselves as trying to define what moral is. Morality and Law (code or not) are different things. You can't code morality - you can only encode the programmer's morality. (Which is not the same thing, because the programmer can change his/her mind.)

drdeca 9y ago

Ok, but their question was morality, not what will be enforced, so, I'm not sure why you are bringing up what will be enforced?

AgentME 9y ago
I think they are interestingly intertwined questions. If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. From the other angle, existing enforcement mechanisms will impose themselves as trying to define what moral is. In a way, besides the little selfish gains, I may be fatalistically trying to define "code is law" as moral because it is what I am presently capable of enforcing. Maybe I'm just talking myself in a circle; it's good fuel to ruminate on.
- BraveNewCurency 9y ago
  > If something happens that's egregiously morally out of bounds, then people will find or create ways to enforce against it. I think you left out "and a lot of money is involved". Do you think there would have been an emergency hard fork if the DAO only had $100 in it? I sincerely doubt it. > existing enforcement mechanisms will impose themselves as trying to define what moral is. Morality and Law (code or not) are different things. You can't code morality - you can only encode the programmer's morality. (Which is not the same thing, because the programmer can change his/her mind.)