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medici | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I am not convinced that Bitcoin can apply force to the government to make it do anything.  The goodness of an idea lies in the understanding of those who act on that idea, not in the idea itself.  The completion among groups with different ideas is not based on the goodness of those ideas, and neither is the success of that completion based on truth, goodness or justice.  If we don’t act with the understand that politics is the process by which the authority to wage war, tax and imprison emerges into our world, that doesn’t negate the actions of others.

The war among those with ideas is no less fierce and requires warriors.  Just doing my part.

 #liberty #libertarian #asknostr
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Joe Li₿ertarian | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's definitely a competition of ideas. But Bitcoin removes government's ability to extract wealth at will from the people living there. And if the people can exit because of poor treatment, the actions of the government has direct consequences. Human action is what changes the world. Ideas are what motivates this action, but ideas without action are worthless.

I think we're saying basically the same thing. But government power is very likely to be reduced/limited by the existence and especially by the mass adoption (human action) of it by the populace.

BTW - This is a great video by Larkin Rose... https://youtu.be/hw01fB3hqBM?si=EU5s4DsGTUQta-Ft
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medici | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There is no justification with regard to accepting first principles.  First principles come from experience not proof.  I don’t know the proof that Bitcoin removes government's ability to extract wealth.  What principle is it based on?

The principle “Every Human Being owns Himself’ also does not emerge from the knowledge of good or evil, it is something to be agreed on or not in our experience.  The process that has allowed us to formulate concepts of good and evil perpetuates itself by the manifestations of those concepts in the common understanding of our environment.   In other words, I understand slavery is bad because our environment has created understandable concepts that didn’t prevail in history.  Which came first, the success of those concepts, or the goodness of them?