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0 pointsJohnHaugeland4y ago0 comments

It's easy enough to have a discussion about you which you don't take seriously

An anti-vaxxer might respond the same way to "the problem with anti-vaxxers," hoping to make sure that nobody discusses the very real problems with them

It's generally okay if people being criticized don't want the people speaking about them to think poorly of them.

It's generally okay if a person being criticized believes that what's said to them can be rebuffed with canned content.

You go ahead and tell everyone that the reason you're polluting with a dysfunctional casino is "you weren't born with functional institutions" if you like

Every notice how anti-vaxxers have canned responses that they think landed, but nobody else does?

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rglullis4y ago

Did you notice your rhetoric is so poor that you could not address any actual argument? You did nothing except (a) resorting to throw false accusations hoping that this is enough to discredit your "opponent" and (b) "othering" via an absurd analogy?

If you only tried to reason properly and read at least part of what has been discussed before, you'd find out that:

- I am not in favor of BTC. I think it worked as a proof-of-concept for a system to transfer value without intermediaries, but it has failed as a currency - no privacy, too expensive, too volatile and its fixed supply makes it unworkable as money.

- I am not in favor of PoW. There are cheaper and more efficient ways to secure a blockchain and we are close to make a switch.

- I am not in favor of all these token projects that create opportunities for speculation but are not connected to real economic activity.

My "thing" is using crypto for payments and small-scale banking as an alternative for the global financial system [0]. So, unless you think that the status quo is "good", you will have a better shot at changing my mind if you show me a superior solution to the problem we are trying to tackle. Trying to dismiss me and my work with self-righteous, sophomoric rhetoric does not help anyone and does not solve anything.

[0]: https://hub20.io/about

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