Why do you expect the government's laws to be forever reasonable, or reasonable for everyone all the time? Can you be guaranteed a vote if you've already been made a criminal? I'm skeptical of BTC as a currency, but divorcing the state from the capacity to control who can transact seems like a fantastic check on government power in a world where surveillance is becoming increasingly perfect. Think of Bitcoin in this context as digital cash, in relation to a a potentially centralized digital currency.

I mean, what’s your plan at that point? Move to the wild with a gun and hunt something for food? We can’t separate ourselves from society, and many countries have a way to reform and defend the direction their government is heading. That’s what we should strive to do.

If I'm frozen out of access to my native currency? Absolutely.

We can't separate ourselves from society, nor should we want to. But we should also ensure checks are in place so that society's capacity to control the individual is not absolute, so as to mitigate the negative side-effects that can spring from its convulsions.

Perfect and immediate enforcement of every law prevents many undesireable activities, but it removes what I consider to be necessary alack from the system. It should be enough that the ledger is transparent, and the law can be retroactively enforced when law enforcement is made aware of the violation.

I cant vote in the US. In argentina, however, the government seized my bank accounts and made it illegal to trade foreign currencies.

This assumes your vote matters. Governments around the world are consumed by regulatory capture and corruption.

True, but at the point of a dictatorship, all is lost, unless you leave the country - and that’s why democracy should be protected at all cost. I don’t see how circumventing the whole thing help the regular people, considering the potential increase due to easier availability in illegal activity like human trafficking, child porn, weapons trade, etc. We have laws against them for very good reasons.

> True, but at the point of a dictatorship, all is lost, unless you leave the country

Today's democracy is just a dictatorship in sheep's clothing, and I'm not convinced democratic governments were ever anything but.

> illegal activity like human trafficking, child porn, weapons trade, etc.

Boogiemen... Not that these things don't happen, but that they happen rarely, and the government doesn't even do a good job of stopping these things.

Worst of all good people believe the government stops these things and don't work to protect themselves and their community from them because of this belief.

Jews who fled Nazi Germany would like a word with you.

Nazi Germany was known for having a prototypical democracy, right?...

As we've seen with events in the last year, things can change pretty quickly.

Government has always been the principal enabler of every war, genocide, and mass abuse of human rights through history. Divorcing them from control of money is a massive human rights advancement, and most people recognize this.

Disagree. Power was and is the enabler of said things. And currently, democracy with proper separation of powers is the best we have to manage said power.

The government is just another name for whoever has a monopoly of said power (and violence).