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It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it. We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing t

It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it. We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing their activity to something in Argentina. If you are able to say precisely how some particular person or organization is harming you, I encourage you to file a lawsuit against them. If not, I encourage you to take up some kind of spiritual cultivation practice to help you not be unduly concerned about the activities of others.

jcelerier 5y ago
> We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing their activity to something in Argentina. why not
lottin 5y ago
> It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it. It's not obvious at all. A title of ownership that doesn't grant ownership of anything at all is, in principle, worthless.
KozmoNau7 5y ago
The presence of harm cannot be decided solely on a individual basis, to be solved by lawsuits. Just as you cannot solve the problem of harmful emissions or pollution by measuring individual harm and somehow tracing that back to the source. How would a person trace their illness caused by PFOA emitted by DuPont, if DuPont could simply counter with "prove that the specific PFOA molecules that made you sick came from our plant."? It doesn't work that way, and for damn good reason. You don't have to prove specific individual harm, in order to condemn and regulate actions that do harm on societal, national or global scale. Cryptocurrency demonstrably does harm by vastly increasing global power consumption, plus the cost and environmental damage from producing the increasing amounts of hardware needed to run crypto as a whole. That is why regulation is needed, because we cannot let the misguided desires of a few crypto-obsessed tech heads contribute to climate change on such a scale.

jcelerier 5y ago

> We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing their activity to something in Argentina. why not

lottin 5y ago

> It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it. It's not obvious at all. A title of ownership that doesn't grant ownership of anything at all is, in principle, worthless.

KozmoNau7 5y ago

The presence of harm cannot be decided solely on a individual basis, to be solved by lawsuits. Just as you cannot solve the problem of harmful emissions or pollution by measuring individual harm and somehow tracing that back to the source. How would a person trace their illness caused by PFOA emitted by DuPont, if DuPont could simply counter with "prove that the specific PFOA molecules that made you sick came from our plant."? It doesn't work that way, and for damn good reason. You don't have to prove specific individual harm, in order to condemn and regulate actions that do harm on societal, national or global scale. Cryptocurrency demonstrably does harm by vastly increasing global power consumption, plus the cost and environmental damage from producing the increasing amounts of hardware needed to run crypto as a whole. That is why regulation is needed, because we cannot let the misguided desires of a few crypto-obsessed tech heads contribute to climate change on such a scale.