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 Can I ask WHY you would motivate (or push) others to try and redefine 'OWNING' (bitcoin) ?

Will it be better for you in your own US state to be able to legally say to the IRS that you don't OWN any money or assets or at least fewer than the IRS may claim you have? 
And will it help to say "I don't OWN it, I just am the only one that CONTROLS the thing with which I can do masssive purchases in the future"?
Will people outside the US be better off redefining 'owning' (property rights) and ignore Rothbard's or even Ayn Rand's definition of it?

I myself am (and probably people with me are) getting very tired of liberals trying to redefine speech nowadays, so all real words with real meaning start to lose their impact and definition.
Redefining the meaning of words is trying to take away speech so all will be unclear in the future. This is why all is "rasist" and "right-wing" and blablabla-"denier" today expressed by people who feel the need to control the other person, but cannot properly express themselves..

BUT, if redefining the word OWN to CONTROL helps YOU in any way in YOUR specific case to help protect YOUR assets... You found a way to help yourself and would feel the need advise this trick to others...

Maybe you get my point this time and I hope it did not make you angry, nothing gets solved that way.

Have a great day and thanks in advance for your reply 👊 
 Mental gymnastics is not a fun sport to watch I am bored now.  😂  
 It wasn't very important. You could have had a solid short explanation, but no...