I agree with your remarks about the healthy and productive process of confronting and melting publicly "right" and "wrong" ideas, as Stuart Mill explains.
And being totally against censorship, I find this matter quite complex, though.
Because we can see many times that hate speech doesnt come originally from "people" or communities, but from armed organizations, governments or ideological lobbies... in these cases the hate speech doesnt help the situation, but FUELS the conflict in order to better achieve the objectives, whether of an arms lobby from Washington or an Islamic Revolution from Tehran.
Anyway, if there is a solution, it should be more speech and more freedom !!
Lo nunca visto en países libres, CENSURA preventiva y generalizada basada en los criterios subjetivos de un comisario político que no ha sido elegido democráticamente.
the myth of authority
https://www.bitchute.com/video/phrCugPgcnAz/
reminder for all that need a refresher.
The radical dichotomy between the concepts of government and people is naïve and too simple. Governments have been CREATED not by aliens, but by real persons, by people.
I agree that this creation is some kind of monster used by the powerful to exploit other people, but authority is not an irrational superstition. Authority is a great REALITY based and justified on the historic legitimation given year by year, month by month by people in a complex PROCESS of thousands of years.
ah, for fuck's sake nostr:npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd:
"Some of these people are Libertarians who are fully committed to individual freedom, but are unwilling to respect a person’s gender identity"
Why is this the hill to die on? And you know perfectly well that libertarian ethos have to do with _state power_, not the delusions others have about their sex.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/trump-and-the-future-of-bitcoin
#trump #BMopinion #politicstr #plebstr #genderdysphoria #trumpmania #TDS #Bitcoin
The theory of fundamental rights of Liberalism (relations between citizen and State) was modified and distorted after 2nd WW at some UN Declarations and other international forums.
The so called "2nd and 3rd generation of human rights" introduced in those years and until today the DISTORTION of applying the idea of human rights to relationships among citizens.
So now I have the fundamental "right" to have other people pay for my house or my health care and to have other people to agree with my personal opinions about morals, social principles, sex, etc (of course if they fit into the canon of collectivism and Deconstruction)... otherwise they would NOT respect my rights.
2 minutes ?? I am afraid that is too simple an explanation...
The fact that the educational system, morals of powerful, religions, etc indoctrinate people to obey is not a sound reason to affirm that people obey ultimately because of that.
Too many books and theories have been written about the ORIGIN of the State and none of them is definitive, but what is certain is that this origin is a process of thousands of years in hundreds of different civilizations, not a false illusion of the people.
Discrimination is one of those confusing concepts that drives us all crazy.
It is something negative when it is an illegal act of the government or a public power, since it is an attack against the principle of equality before the law.
Yet, when we speak of discrimination between private people we tend to miss the simple fact that we all do it, all the time.
We all discriminate when we choose our friends or our partner, when we apply for an specific post, when we hire a worker, when we decide to have a tuna sandwich, when we cheer on our favourite team, when we buy a book, when we marry or when we decide to spend a week in Brazil and not in Canada.
And we do it according to criteria of beauty, race, culture, kindness, money, intelligence, etc and other very "selfish" reasons.
We all do it every day and it is our right (without prejudice to the fact that by doing so we could be maybe a stupid or a bad person in some cases).
So, discriminating CV with picture or discriminating interview for a job ?? ...yeah !! isn't that the main function of a CV or an interview ? .... to discriminate !!
Felicidades por la entrevista, nos trae un buen chorro de realidad y de autocrítica, ambos requisitos imprescindibles para avanzar.
Mi impresión en este tema es q la dimensión del cambio personal y social q propone #bitcoin es tan gigantesca q principalmente son los mejor informados (grandes inversores) y/o entusiastas (generaciones jóvenes) los q hacen el esfuerzo para entenderlo. De ahí la brecha entre precio y adopción.
La gran masa de población sólo entrará si Amazon o su banco se lo dan masticado o cuando haya un cambio generacional.
Great speech about integrity and against hypocrisy... here in English !!
As the democrats are jumping on the bitcoin train, let's look at the relationship between AML and social justice.
Power asymmetries emerge more easily where consent is easiest to coerce. As long as we can manufacture opinion to an extent that serves our needs – such as the widely held belief that dragnet financial surveillance is necessary to maintain liberal democracy – dominance is imminent, particularly when it goes unnoticed.
This ignorance is AML’s superpower - so much so that a party vowing to end inequality can reconcile its commitments to policies that exacerbate the divide it allegedly aims to overcome.
AML is the systematic rounding up of entire groups of people for collective punishment for the doings of a few; in political philosophy, we call this fascism. AML is the opposite of social – and it definitely isn’t just.
84% of people view homelessness a very or fairly serious problem - but if you don’t have a home, you can’t get a bank account, and if you can’t get a bank account, you can’t get a home. Yet democrats continue to rally behind increasing AML/CFT regulations.
Last year, US financial institutions reported compliance costs of $85 Billion. Eight in ten democrats believe that efforts to ensure racial equality have not gone far enough, but the reason for racial inequality in banking – and therefore much of the rest of life – are increasingly exorbitant compliance costs raising minimum account requirements, keeping millions of households unbanked.
Politicians talking about Bitcoin may excite you, but we shouldn’t lose track of why we’re excited about Bitcoin.
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I mostly agree with the central idea of your post about AML.
Yet, I think that "equality" could be a much clearer word in that context than "social justice", which is a very common but quite confusing concept, as one might think considering its religious origin (from a Jesuit priest).
Confusing also because (if we dont turn to religious beliefs) justice is always a "social" idea, so its a redundancy.
And finally because out of a legal system nobody can give a minimally precise and not circular definition of what "Justice" is (apart from stating his personal opinion about what considers just or unjust)... this problem dates back to Roman Law times.
This chart drew my attention... it shows the evolution of #bitcoin adoption in different societies (countries that have followed different policies).
https://plasbit.com/blog/bitcoin-adoption-by-country
After the worldwide boom of information and news of last years, it seems that the 15-20% range acts as an invisible ceiling ?
As Hume explained, the problem with "what is right" (morals) is that it comes not from reasoning but from emotions. So, there is NOT such a thing as a single "what is right" except for very few and extreme cases (vb to kill a baby .... but not vb to kill and eat human flesh as its done nowadays in some parts of Papua New Guinea).
Most of cases of "what is right" are gray areas determined in every historic moment and in every part of the World by the emotions of majority.
And today majority of people chose every day order, obedience, police and repression, since they get security in exchange. This could change in the future, though.
Not a good take.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian
As a political philosophy, libertarianism says nothing about respecting others' views and lifestyles -- let alone celebrate and cherish stupidities and absurdities. It certainly doesn't prescribe us to live and let live.
It says we MAY NOT USE VIOLENCE (= esp STATE coercion) to enforce beliefs we may have onto others.
It doesn't say I have to be nice. It doesn't implore me to be compassionate. It doesn't mean I have to respect and allow into my home dispicable and degenerate shit.
I can insult you all I want. I can refuse to engage with you because you're ugly, vegan, "autistic," or believe that Bitcoin is compatible with leftism. I can ridicule your pathetic ideas or lifestyle, in public or in private. I can tell nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde off for thoroughly misunderstanding what libertarian means or what its philosophy or ethics prescribes, or nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc who certainly should know better.
Libertarianism is a non-smart contract: it asks about physical violence, initiation of force, and state power. Nothing more.
The rest-- religion, etiquette, values, behavior -- it relegates to a social level.
Living in harmony with others doesn't mean to embrace any odd retarded thing they do or say. it means to NOT throw them in jail for it
#bitcoin #polecon #polstr #bitcoinmagazine #freedom #libertarianism
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Maybe its a consequence of the #Chess rule that says illegal a King's move to any square controled by a piece of the opponent...
I mean, the King cannot ever move to a square already attacked by an enemy piece (Rook, Pawn, King or Bishop).
A new rule in #Chess is proposed in case of a draw. The victory would be awarded to one player by an #AI based on the quality of his movements in the game !!
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researchers-propose-new-method-to-end-draws-in-chess
#JavierMilei : "... first I thought that it was a mental illness ... then I came to the conclusion that it is a disease of the soul ..."
Indeed, ego is a great obstacle to learn new things, but in my opinion laziness plays a more decisive role.
The sofa is our greatest enemy, the ultimate factor why most of us hardly commit any time on the problems of the "Res Publica" ... so politicians have occupied that large void to sell us comfort and security.
I re-quote the same sentence in 2 days...
"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it"
Ayn Rand
very similar.Yeah !! ... and a very interesting topic is to compare both in the light of Game Theory... #Chess is a zero sum game but, what about #Bitcoin ??
Some say its a negative sume game, some say its a positive sum game ....
VAAAMOS FAUSTINO !!
Youngest Ever Chess International Master !!! ♟️
... here playing a 1 minute game