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 Unpopular opinion:  If you follow this line of thought to its logical conclusion, given that there are people who blow things up, and assuming that it takes bitcoin a period of time that exceeds those actor’s ability to be jingoistically irrational, you may need to ‘blow someone up’ to preserve your value space.  

Otherwise you capitulate, and any thoughts of low-time preference legacy are subverted.

I don’t make the rules.