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Replying to Avatar Melvin Carvalho

"We can't stop something, therefore we should allow or enable it" is known as an appeal to futility, and it's often a subset of the either/or fallacy, also called binary thinking.

It's a powerful framing shift: if you can't stop something 100%, then why bother trying at all?

But the real world is messier than that. People have choices, but 80% follow defaults. Harmful behavior is possible, but not inevitable. And well-intentioned changes to working systems can have unexpected consequences.

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin Core — it has brought us a long way. But no single developer always gets it right. Listening to the broader community often makes the system stronger.

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james 8mo ago

The real world is certainly messier and thankfully so.

When a choice is presented it creates a tension which draws people towards making a choice. It is hard to resist this pull and temporarily live in a state of not knowing yet this is a better state for listening.

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