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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by Dilettante_ on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:16AM (#46194090)
You would have the freedom to try to put cameras in my home, I would have the freedom to try and stop you or take them down again. Shock horror, personal agency instead of surrogate power via government!
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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by SigmundA on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:26PM (#46195016)
Unless amelius is stronger than you, or has better weapons, or commands a gang that is bigger than your gang, then you can't stop them.

Its almost like you need some sort of power structure with the monopoly on violence to enforce agreed upon freedoms, they could be called the "government" which enforces "laws".

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by Dilettante_ on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:43PM (#46196027)
>stronger than you, or has better weapons, or commands a gang that is bigger than your gang, then you can't stop them

How do you not realize you're literally describing government?

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by SigmundA on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:52PM (#46197519)
How can you not realize that’s the point? Monopoly on violence is just that, the definition of the state.

Anarchy is not a stable system, you have no property rights or freedoms without a way to enforce them.

You provide no alternative, a government will form from a power vacuum made up of whoever has the most physical power around you.

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by amelius on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:06PM (#46197647)
It can also be companies who put cameras in your home and abusing them.
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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by Dilettante_ on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:47AM (#46206198)
>government will form from a power vacuum made up of whoever has the most physical power around you.

Yup! My issue with the current system is that The Powers That Be pretend to act in the interest of their subjects(or, actually my issue is that people believe it) instead of being a gang of thugs imposing their will.

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