yes but how is it e.g. on a knife maker to control who uses it? it's up to the police to police it. private payments just make ransomware payments easier. they

yes but how is it e.g. on a knife maker to control who uses it? it's up to the police to police it. private payments just make ransomware payments easier. they don't create a new source of the criminal intent. should we, therefore, not improve global access to food and healthcare because some of the people whose actions would be empowered by it are criminals? plus, private payments are in theory a literal requirement for soundness of the money system due to fungibility concerns, and also, you might argue, a requirement to protect the freedoms of certain people such as abused spouses. there might be some sufficiently important human rights issues that only a censorship resistant private money system can solve... and I'm not sure if ransomware increases are really much to do with the availability of digital currencies so much as a symptom of other social problems. it's somewhat a question of whether solving e.g. ransomware issues is worth the effort if it means we get the other humanitarian solutions and social benefits from something like Monero.