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Rule of law and defense of rights and freedoms are things that even orthodox Libertarians recognize as an appropriate role of government. You can want a governm
by ams6110 8y ago
Rule of law and defense of rights and freedoms are things that even orthodox Libertarians recognize as an appropriate role of government. You can want a government to provide those things and also want it to stay out of your way in most of the rest of your life.
- knorker 8y agoYeah. But my point is that value set A logically implies restrictions on freedoms within value set A, and it doesn't matter how much you want it to not be true. Really you want law enforcement to find actual financial crime, but there are many people who draw an ABSOLUTE line against the police taking a look at your financial dealings after getting probable cause. And they have these values at the same time. Back to bitcoin: People want to use it to get around restrictions on moving money around. Often laws. Then when money gets stolen they want the police because stealing is a crime. This is just another way of saying "I want to follow only the laws I agree with, and others should always follow the law I want them to follow". But in civilized society you can't just pick and choose which laws to obey. I'm not saying you, but bitcoin is so full of these people that I'm just so sick of it.