> People who want to keep ANY of their income sources private. Also see: Anyone who uses cash.
That's not what money laundering is, I really wish people would stop perpetuating this misinformation. Money laundering is when somebody takes illegal income and "cleans" it by creating fake clients that pay a front business. You obviously have to pay taxes, etc but at the end of the day you have a completely clean cut of your illegal income.
Anonymous payment methods only solve one (very small part) of the money-laundring problem: getting the money to someone who will clean it. After that, you still need to create fake clients and do your tax returns (which require believable income figures). So you're still stuck with trying to convince the IRS (or tax office of your choice) that the money you gained was legitimate.
I found the problem. I don't think money has an intrinsic morality. It might be the result of (what some may deem) immoral action, but the money itself should not be illegal. There is nothing about "suddenly" having a lot of money which should be automatically illegal or prevented, and people should not have to explain every detail about how they obtained the money they did.
This kind of thinking leads to things like asset forfeiture abuse, where merely having a bunch of money on your person is apparently grounds for confiscation.
You may disagree, but I'm entitled to my opinion.
People profiting off the illegality of drugs who are drawn to high-risk/high-reward work.
> money-launderers
People who want to keep ANY of their income sources private. Also see: Anyone who uses cash.
> terrorists
"There is neither an academic nor an accurate legal consensus regarding the definition of terrorism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism This makes it a "weasel word" (or "appeal to anonymous authority" fallacy) pure and simple, like "treason" from back in the day.
> pedophiles
Most aren't active and suffer in silence. The rest can be managed. As the grain of truth of Louis CK's infamous "Most Offensive Joke Ever," if pedophilia wasn't as demonized as it is now, then most people would get their kids back after being abused, instead of them ending up dead in a ditch. The former being arguably not as bad as the latter.