I mean, clearly its strong privacy and anonymity protections coupled with instant, cheap and permissionless transmission over the globe and finally the fact that it can be trustlessly swapped into Bitcoin (and more choices coming with serai etc) makes it the most capable tool for this purpose.

However, that is not its only purpose, in fact the vast majority of people are not unethical criminals.

It is possible to be pro-privacy while still wanting to minimize real criminal use, but at the same time it has to be accepted that there will always be a percentage of crime (and bad things too) that won't be possible to stop.

In return we get privacy for everyone else. To me and many others that makes it better than the alternative, total surveillance and the destruction of the concept of the presumption of innocence.

We live in twisted, dark times in this manner, where evidence of desiring to protect one's privacy is seen as evidence of commiting a crime.

This is, of course, nonsense.

We need to go back to the days of more investigation and undercover work and infiltration, which is certainly harder than watching a computer screen. Organizing society such that the police has a very easy time while everyone else is disempowered is pretty much what constitutes a police state.. and as so many predicted a few decades ago, we've collectively sleepwalked into this very situation.

#monero is a blessing, and privacy is not a crime.