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According to you Bitcoin morally obliges us to fight for it. Is that right? How does it do that? Wouldn’t that mean even normies have such an obligation?

Could you elaborate upon what constitutes a “moral obligation”?

I cannot see this requirement. All you need is some sats and private keys. Then you’re ready to go. Bitcoin is amoral and there are no rights to use it. You use it if you want (and if it still works). If not then you don’t. Nobody forces you and you can’t force anybody or impose restrictions on anybody’s use of it other than holding a private key (assuming the network is online).

Then you go on throwing freedom of speech and oppressive state power into the mix. I’m not sure that I follow.

As I see it: you fight and are clearly morally obliged. Which imo is good. We all do what works best for us. But you can’t impose moral obligations on other sovereign individuals. Then you become something closely resembling the State.
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Rune Østgård 1y ago

The fight for the right to use bitcoin is the same as the fight for the right to use the money you like best.

If you don't fight for your freedom, you leave your security and freedom in the hands of others.

History demonstrates with 100% clarity that you neither can trade your security, nor your freedom.

It's your obligation, if you want to keep it or reclaim it.

Otherwise you will lose it.

Not fighting makes you a freerider.

Freeriders disincentivizes others from fighting.

That's my stance - whether you like it or not.

Furthermore - arguing that it's a moral obligation to fight against oppression, and for freedom and to provide for your own security makes me know different from the state is a no-go.

The state doesn't care about morality. It just takes and amasses power and (ab)uses it.

Not adhering to these moral principles, which I'm not imposing on anyone, doesn't cause any sanction. I'm not in a position to do that against you.

But if I want to look down on people who won't fight, I have a right to do so, as a free man.

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