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Being revolutionary is hard, its not an entitlement. It's not unusual in this endeavour to die in a ditch or your head paraded on tip of a spear. You are liter

by mrtksn 2y ago

Being revolutionary is hard, its not an entitlement. It's not unusual in this endeavour to die in a ditch or your head paraded on tip of a spear. You are literally the enemy of the state, a terrorist, an illegal when you take on a state. You are not even "the hero of the people", at best you are the hero of a group of the people who share your deals and everyone else sees you as undesirable, especially the people who are the beneficiaries of the system you are trying to take down and they don't even have to be bad people. Also, just because you take on a powerful organisation doesn't even make you the righteous one. Awful lot of people depend on these organisations for stuff like following the money to catch other "revolutionaries" who blown up their metro stations for example. It's very likely to be vilified when you decapacitate the governments.

smeej 2y ago
I'll grant revolutionaries are not always the good guys, but you seem to be taking for granted that an "enemy of the state" never is. We're talking about people who wrote software, not bombers.
- mrtksn 2y ago
  I don't judge the enemy of the state, merely point out your status when you take on a state. Also, "they just wrote some code" isn't a defense. Some of the greatest criminals just pushed some buttons. Adding extra steps or using a device to do what you do doesn't change the nature of your actions. The people who you are trying to take down and label as oppressor just happen to write stuff on paper or on a computer too. If you think that all the monetary transactions should be unstoppable and anonymous(which I actually agree with, IMHO the state should be taking on criminals through proper police action and not meddle with other systems or force companies act like police to make its job easier) and you make a device that helps people do that and if the state disagrees with you you become a criminal. If I ever build a money laundering device, I wouldn't be claiming responsibility for it or say it can't be illegal because "its just some code".

by mrtksn 2y ago

smeej 2y ago

I'll grant revolutionaries are not always the good guys, but you seem to be taking for granted that an "enemy of the state" never is. We're talking about people who wrote software, not bombers.

mrtksn 2y ago
I don't judge the enemy of the state, merely point out your status when you take on a state. Also, "they just wrote some code" isn't a defense. Some of the greatest criminals just pushed some buttons. Adding extra steps or using a device to do what you do doesn't change the nature of your actions. The people who you are trying to take down and label as oppressor just happen to write stuff on paper or on a computer too. If you think that all the monetary transactions should be unstoppable and anonymous(which I actually agree with, IMHO the state should be taking on criminals through proper police action and not meddle with other systems or force companies act like police to make its job easier) and you make a device that helps people do that and if the state disagrees with you you become a criminal. If I ever build a money laundering device, I wouldn't be claiming responsibility for it or say it can't be illegal because "its just some code".