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Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by theorique on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:30AM (#7354692)
My government job is cool, because I do work and stuff.

Other people, of course, suck at the government teat, and drive welfare Cadillacs to the welfare office to pick up their food stamps and welfare check to pay for their 15 kids by different fathers.

In other words, if you do it, it's wrong and you need to change. If I do it, it's because you just don't understand.

(Edit: Do we need an irony tag? This is a humorous comment meant to illustrate one kind of mindset that exists with some of the people who hold 'eliminate all the government' kind of views.)

Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by mattgibson on Thursday March 06, 2014 @12:31PM (#7355177)
This is called the fundamental attribution error: If I do it, I know the circumstances so it's understandable, whereas if you do it, the circumstances are unclear so I blame your (assumed to be unpleasant) personality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by theorique on Friday March 07, 2014 @01:47PM (#7361937)
Thanks, I hadn't known there was a psychological term for it.
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by astrodust on Thursday March 06, 2014 @12:17PM (#7355066)
If only it was actually humorous...
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by theorique on Friday March 07, 2014 @01:47PM (#7361934)
ouch ...