Topic: How evil is Bitcoin ? - page 6. (Read 15017 times)

I'm glad. So many people want other people to raise their guns as soon as someone mentions a problem. It's absurd and awful and evil.

I like the way you express that.  It's quite exactly how I see it. "Challenging, exciting, and fun".  It will also probably be more dangerous, but I don't care.  If danger is the price to pay not to live in the jail they are buiding around us, so be it.

I think for the most part people act as they were treated as children. A lot of people are controlling and manipulative because it is easy to treat your children like that.

The most controlling people end up trying to control me, I don't want this. I want to rule myself, I want to be my own leader. I have to be my own leader.

It is absurd to worry about what might happen to me if I am my own leader when I already know what my would be leaders want to do to me. They want to lock me in a cage and kill me if I try to get away from them. Talking about how bad it might be if we stop respecting them is crazy. Yes, we will have problems to solve. It will be challenging, exciting, and fun.

Personnaly, I consider bitcoin to be the first serious candidate for an anarcho-capitalistic currency.

Now, searching the web for the concept of anarcho-capitalism, I've found this apparently famous quote from Noam Chomsky :

<<
    Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever
    implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few
    counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that
    its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would
    quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of
    "free contract" between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick
    joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the
    consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.
>>


Well, somehow I agree that ancap could lead to some ugly things.  I doubt however that it would have no "counterparts in human history".  I think that, to some extend, roman empire can be considered as anarcho-capitalistic, for instance.

Anyway, whether or not anarcho-capitalism is evil is a huge subject, but somehow I think it's pretty much the same as wondering whether or not human beings are evil.  Anarcho capitalism gives individuals a huge power, for instance the power of letting people starve heartlessly.  But I also think it could lead to great things.  Anyway, I prefer the anarcho-capitalist perspective, rather than a bureaucratico-socialist world government.

The thing is :  I don't really know if humans are evil, but I'm one of them, and I know I'm not.  So I give others the benefit of the doubt.