I have been thinking that why we really fear the centralized system is not because we detest the idea of control, but because we do not trust the people who are in control, do you agree with me?
I already know that there will be a lot of voices against this but I at least for sure agree.
There is a reason why some people in some countries have a lot of faith in their government and some have almost none, and this is a bit ironic, you go and vote (well in democracies, not NK or Russia) and then you argue the ones you've voted can't be trusted. Every single government is made up of people, people from that country, that have grown up there gone to the same schools as many more, and played with a lot of the future "plebs" it's not like the authority in that country whatever the brach, law or judicial has a will of its own, it's still a group of persons behind it.
Quite interesting, the same people who wouldn't trust anybody to run the country have no problem flying with a plane with a stranger and not thinking for a moment the pilot might be high or on a suicide drive. How many ask themselves how capable the bus or uber driver is before stepping in?
Much of the "distrust" when it comes to politics is mainly about stuff they don't like personally, not much else.
If there had not been any reason to not trust the people in control, the idea of a decentralized system will never have been.
Decentralization under different forms happened way before Bitcoin, it's present in the US when it comes to local government or education, it's present in technology with distributed databases, it's present in commerce and tourism when you have different hotels or chain stores that despite carrying the same brand they have different prices, different merchandise, and a ton more.
Knowing how things can get out of hand when everyone is left to do as they please, don't you think that the freedom and anonymity from bitcoin will be really abused when accepted and adopted for use even more than some people do now?
Regulation or no regulation, people will abuse everything, give a man anything from a broom to a flower pot, a keyboard, or a pie and he will eventually hit somebody in the head with it instead of using it as it should. Fertilizers should be used for growing crops and trucks to carry furniture around, yet we have idiots making IEDs out of them.
There will always be abuse, regulations and punishment might reduce it, not make it disappear.