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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by CryptoPunk on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:27AM (#30192091)
The vast majority of people, if they are already financial comfortable, would forego opportunities to steal and rob, even when the sums that doing so could garner them are astronomical. Those who lack this moral constitution are generally not entrusted with the kind of responsibility that would allow them to do grievous harm to society.

If this wasn't the case, society would fall apart very quickly.

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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by raziel2p on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:27AM (#30193613)
I think the fact society hasn't "fallen apart very quickly" has more to do with us building economical and organizational systems to prevent morally dubious people from doing whatever they want, not the fact that most people wouldn't.

How much of our moral inclination to not rob or steal would still be there if we didn't grow up quickly learning that it's illegal? Especially if we're not even stealing from a fellow human, but some anonymous corporation.

Furthermore, you only need a few people to break the rules to do damage and potentially erode trust in the system, and if that trust is gone, the social contract to behave well to each other is even more at risk.

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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by 300bps on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:44AM (#30192270)
The vast majority of people...would forego opportunities to steal and rob

I agree with you 100%. The scary thing though is that if 99% of people wouldn't steal, just imagine how much damage those 3.3 million people in the U.S. can do. (That's 1% of the U.S. Population)

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Re:In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320... by toss1 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:48AM (#30194805)
Yup, considering that the proportion of psychopaths in the general population is above 1%, and in organizations over 12% [0]...

[0] https://sapienjournal.org/latest-estimate-of-psychopathy-in-...

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