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Totally leading question. To answer, one must accept that they love Theymos and that Theymos indulges in censorship.
and implying that de-fusing the Satoshi coins is theft is just not tenable. "Property destruction" would be apt, but you're laying on far too much exaggeration and subversion for anyone to treat your trolling seriously
Wrong. OP, to whom the question was addressed, took my 'trolling' seriously and provided serious reply.
Exaggeration was intentional in response to the (imo) exaggerated topic.
'Theft' may not be appropriate term, but I sense many/most libertarians would agree that destroying someone else's property with your own financial gain in mind (reduced supply + increase in value from removal of uncertainty) is equally bad as theft, if not worse (there's always a chance of recovering stolen goods).
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I disagree on that particular issue. We cannot know if satoshi is alive or not, or if he wants to claim his coins or not, or if it is holding them longterm.
It is pretty unlikely that he has the keys to them, since he never moved it despite many many crypto vulnerabilities have been discovered since.
But still there is a chance that he still has them and holding on to them, so we should not steal that from him, even if somebody steals them it would be less than 6% of the market cap, and given the thief cant liquidate it instantly, so the price won't even drop 6% as a result, and maybe the thief will start investing it and not selling it.
So yeah its a bad idea, nobody is perfect, everyone can make some mistakes.
OK, at least you're somewhat consistent in your views, but since you seem to understand that not everything is black/white and on some subjects, you cannot really draw a clear line between leftists and libertarians, then why not having a constructive discussion on a specific subject (if you have anything new to add to it), rather than just taking short-cut by dismissing opposing side as 'leftists'.
