Re:GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, ea...
by alkonaut on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:50AM
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But just like I don’t approve with my neighbors right to own a handgun I’ll also never support their right to take their financial transactions and hide them from me. Because my freedom to live on a street where zero people have guns is a lot more important than his right to keep one, and my (and the majority’a) choice to live in a country where authorities can strongly enforce taxes trumps his right to even have a theoretical possibility to avoid them.
Re:GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, ea...
by sneak on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:08PM
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> Because my freedom to live on a street where zero people have guns
You have no such freedom, and indeed no such is possible, unless you have correctly classified police as non-people.
The state always has guns, and the state is comprised of people. There is no world where "zero people have guns", ever, and it is intellectually dishonest to claim such. It takes people with guns to enforce a ban on private gun ownership.
Ultimately the debate is solely around which people have guns. Four legs bad.
It's sort of how the right to keep and bear arms does imply freedom from government overreach. Privacy rights are similar. They can be used to do things contrary to the desires of the state, if the end user wishes, but having transactional privacy no more means one will be evading taxes than having a rifle means one will be murdering government employees as a revolutionary, though in both cases the option is there.