China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

Re:China's Central Bank Bans ICOs by sametmax on Monday September 04, 2017 @07:55AM (#15167546)

Precisely. The fact something is yours is irrelevant. If it's your gun, i still want the state to make it illegal to shoot your kids with it.

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Re:China's Central Bank Bans ICOs by rothbardrand on Monday September 04, 2017 @08:09AM (#15167628)

Did you just morally equate investing in a failed startups with shooting kids?

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Re:China's Central Bank Bans ICOs by cloakandswagger on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:21PM (#15169190)

Reductio ad absurdum seems to be the statists' argument of choice.

While all but the most radical libertarians will concede that some level of regulation is required, nearly every collectivist I talk to implies that permitting any level of individual human agency would turn the world into a Mad Max hellscape.

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Re:China's Central Bank Bans ICOs by dsacco on Monday September 04, 2017 @08:42AM (#15167827)

No, the commenter used an analogy to demonstrate similarity. No one drew an equivalence, moral or otherwise, between investing and murder.

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