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0 pointsCryptoPunk8y ago0 comments

It may be regulation resistant or it may prove to not be. But the point is people go into it with the expectation that it is designed to try to achieve this property, and they're free to avoid any perceived risks of a regulation resistant industry by remaining in the traditional financial market. This greatly reduces the moral justification of imposing regulations on this space.

We also disagree on the economic causes of events like the Great Depression.

Also I did mention we could bring back an option to voluntarily cede one's own freedom, for those that don't want to bear the responsibility of living with the consequences of their own bad decisions, so I don't think our disagreement is exactly how you've characterised it. It's more like we disagree on whether we should prevent people from having the option to live freely.

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Nursie8y ago

I think we also disagree on what "freely" might mean.

CryptoPunkOP8y ago

Make decisions for your own life? I would hope we could at least agree on the definition of common words and this wouldn't become a definition wack-a-mole.

Nursie8y ago

I think that's both naive and wishful thinking. Like a BSD vs GPL argument, one can have many definitions of what constitutes freedom.

Is BSD more free because it places no restrictions, or is the GPL more free because it guarantees freedom to those further on in the chain?

I'm not going to attempt an answer because it's the stuff of decades of internet flamewars. Similarly I don't think that libertarian freedoms are necessarily the only definitions, particularly as they seem to enshrine ownership of land and property as absolute, which come at a cost to the freedoms of others to make use of land or possessions. (I'm not looking for a debate on why that may or may not be right or wrong, simply to establish that what makes someone or something the most free is not 100% clear cut)

So no, we can't really agree on a definition of free or freely.

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0 pointsCryptoPunk8y ago0 comments

We also disagree on the economic causes of events like the Great Depression.

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Nursie8y ago

I think we also disagree on what "freely" might mean.

CryptoPunkOP8y ago

Make decisions for your own life? I would hope we could at least agree on the definition of common words and this wouldn't become a definition wack-a-mole.

Nursie8y ago

I think that's both naive and wishful thinking. Like a BSD vs GPL argument, one can have many definitions of what constitutes freedom.

Is BSD more free because it places no restrictions, or is the GPL more free because it guarantees freedom to those further on in the chain?

So no, we can't really agree on a definition of free or freely.

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