> You can't escape "inflicting" a moral stance on the world.
Only if you start from the assumption that such things as bitcoin mining ought to be regulated in the first place. You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.
I'm arguing that involving a governmental authority to arbitrate morality is a can of worms that really doesn't need to be opened here.
> Nothing more behind that statement
Fair enough, I thought you meant to take that statement farther than you did.
> You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.
So it's cool if I go to someone and take their bitcoins from them at gunpoint? Or start Mafia 2.0 and create my own protection racket here in SF?
I don’t understand - it’s like we have to repeat the same mistake over and over again. What industries have historically successfully self-regulated for the benefit of the society at large? Regulations and government involvement is why we don’t live in a slave society with a handful of militaristic barons.
> You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.
Isn't "some government authority" exactly how we as a species go about "socially cooperating" on a larger scale?
Only if you start from the assumption that such things as bitcoin mining ought to be regulated in the first place. You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.
I'm arguing that involving a governmental authority to arbitrate morality is a can of worms that really doesn't need to be opened here.
> Nothing more behind that statement
Fair enough, I thought you meant to take that statement farther than you did.