i agree that war is crime. I think it will always be considered. 

However, if Bitcoin is spread out among the populace, they will most likely make the choice to trade rather than pool their resources for war in order to steal. by collecting bitcoin, a country/person is reserving the right to muster resources for war. 

I was thinking of this in terms of "Do I want countries to have a Strategic National Reserve." 

For me, the answer is the same as, do I want universities or churches to have an endowment.  

In terms of the country having a National Reserve, it gives the country more runway to exert power globally or even just pay its bloated employee base in peacetime. 

I would want small countries and jurisdictions everywhere to get reserves however they can in order to leverage more power in the face of the largest countries doing the same thing. 

It would be better if the national reserves are full in the hands of private citizens. However, what if the private citizens are not smart enough to get their reserves, and it takes a centralized government to front-run other centralized governments, then that is better than letting the largest countries in the world front-run its own citizens and other nations. 

It doesn't matter if it's the legacy power structures within each country that are collecting this bitcoin, or a new elite that is collecting this bitcoin that may replace legacy power structures.

So I would want each nation to front-run other nations, even though that means they are front-running their own citizens. This might run the risk of creating mafias within each country depending on the state of each nation. But it's better to create many small mafias than can balance the bigger mafias. 

The bad aspects of mafia stuff could be avoided if the bitcoin adopters/front-runners also have some sort of moral awakening.